Why do Metals Feel Colder than Wood on a Cold Winter Morning?
Roles of thermal conductivity, thermal diffusivity, and thermal effusivity
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6 min readAug 4, 2021
On a cold winter morning, when you touch a piece of metal and a piece of wood, the metal feels a lot colder than the wood, though both are at equal temperatures. This observation is usually attributed to metals having higher thermal…
