Chapter 10 Flashcards
Energy due to position or composition
Potential energy
Energy due to the motion of the object
Kinetic energy
Energy can be converted but can be neither created nor destroyed
Law of conservation of energy
Force acting over a distance
Work
A property of the system that changes independently of its pathway
State function
A measure of the random motions of the components of a substance
Temperature
A flow of energy due to temperature difference
Heat
The part of the universe on which we wish to focus attention
System
Everything in the universe besides the system
Surroundings
Energy flows out of the system
Exothermic
Energy flows into a system
Endothermic
Study of energy
Thermodynamic
The sum of the kinetic and potential energies of all “particles” in the system
Internal energy(E)
The energy of the universe is constant
First law of thermodynamics
Amount of energy required to raise the temperature of one gram of water by one degree Celsius
Calorie