When water evaporates from your skin, you feel cool. Why does evaporation of water from your skin make you feel cool?|||On my homework quiz, I%26#039;ll be writing about the transfer of heat. When heat is transfered from one substance to another, the substance gaining the heat feels hot and the substance loosing the heat feels cool.
Ah, UC Berkeley Chem 1A OWL Questions -- we all love homework . . .|||Evaporation require heat, the heat that causes evaporation of sweat from you skin is drawn from the skin lowering the temperature of your skin.|||it takes heat/energy to evaporate water
this can lower the surface temp of you skin|||water molecules absorb heat n as such garner enough kinetic energy to change to vapour|||For water to go from a liquid to a gas of the same temperature requires approximate 200 calories of energy. When you have water on your skin, it gets some of those calories from your body temperature and the surface of your skin, actually lowering the temperature of the area.
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