Kind of an extension to this question:
If you heat up an object, and put it in contact with a colder object, in an ideal insulated box, the heat from one will transfer to the other through thermal conduction and they will eventually reach an equilibrium temperature at the midpoint, correct?
Now if you have a hot resistor (electrical component) and a cold resistor, and connect them by their leads, so that they make a circuit:
there will be the same conduction and radiation heat transfers. But also, the hotter resistor will have a larger noise current, right? So will there additionally be a transfer of electrical energy from one resistor to the other? Would completing the circuit allow them to reach equilibrium temperature faster than if they were just touching through an insulator with the same thermal conductivity?
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