
In a Dewar's flask, heat flow from the resistor produces a change in the temperature of the water within the calorimetry cup.
Photon energy is often the means by which an electro-dynamic system transfers energy to its surroundings. The quintessential example is the emission of light from an excited atom as it returns to the ground state.
Another common situation involves heat loss from a resistor, usually initiated by collisions between current electrons and conductor atoms at the molecular level which leads to a temperature difference between the resistor and the environment leading to heat flow.
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