In a room where the temp is constant and everything is at equilibrium, why does a tile floor feel colder?

Question

In a thermodynamic class I took in 1989, the professor was talking about the transfer of heat and someone asked this question. The prof. didn’t attempt to explain it because it was off topic from the lecture, but he did say the answer had a more complex biological reason, and not that the floor was actually colder.

In: Biology

Answer 1

Conduction, your foot is warmer than the environment and the tile conducts heat away from your foot, leaving your foot cooler than it was, so the tile feels cold.