<em>1. The hot soup will loose the heat and the ice water will gain the heat</em>
If two jars are insulated inside the insulated box, the heat may not be transferred to outside of the box.
According to II law of thermodynamics, Heat always flow from high temperature body to low temperature body, with out aid of external energy.
<em>So, from two points, it is concluded that The hot soup will lose heat and the ice water will gain the heat until they reach the thermodynamic equilibrium.</em>
<em>2. The particles in gases are farther apart and move faster </em>
Particles in the gases are loosely packed (greater distance between particles compared to solids and liquids) and particles collide less often.
<em>Therefore conduction is weak in gases compared to solids and liquids.</em>
<em>3. Heat and milk by conduction; popping popcorn by radiation.</em>
The heat can transfer from pot to the milk by conduction because they are in contact at boundaries, similarly the pot and the stove are in contact <em>so the conduction transfers heat from pot to the milk. </em>
In microwave oven there is no direct contact (<em>no conduction</em>) of heat and popcorn, also there is no molecular momentum transfer <em>(means of no convection).</em>
<em>So obviously the heat transfer by radiation occurs in a microwave oven.</em>
