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Q .11.19 Explain why :

(b) a brass tumbler feels much colder than a wooden tray on a chilly day

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Brass is a good conductor of heat. Therefore once someone touches brass heat from their body flows into it and it feels cold, in case of a wooden tray, no such conduction of heat from the body takes place as wood is a very poor conductor of heat.

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