Question

Discuss why wearing more layers of clothing during winter keeps us warmer than wearing just one thick piece of clothing .
Topic: Heat

Answer 1

We know that Air is a bad conductor of heat, here when we more layers of clothes are get trapped in between them.

So, the heat relsased from our body, will not escape in the atmosphere.

Answer 2

At winter we wear more than one layer of clothing to keep us warmer than just wearing one thick clothing piece.

The reason behind that is the air gets trapped between two layers of clothing.

The air prevents the heat flow away from our body through layers of clothing as air is a bad conductor of the heat.