How Does Radiation Transfer Heat. D radiation transmits heat by circulating particles in an object. This is the reason that when facing the fire only the front is warmed.
Fluids that is both gases and liquids can transfer heat energy by convection. It is the type of heat one feels when sitting in front of a fireplace or around a campfire. In order for two substances to affect each other they must be in thermal contact with each other.
Instead heat is transferred in infrared waves part of the electromagnetic spectrum.
The suns radiation strikes the ground thus warming the rocks. Convection is the transfer of heat energy in a fluid. Conduction metals are good. All objects absorb and emit thermal radiation aka infrared electromagnetic radiation.