Chapter 2 Flashcards
What is the Law of Conservation of Energy?
Energy cannot be created of destroyed
What’s energy?
The capacity to do some kind of work such as moving an object.
What is temperature?
The measure of the average kinetic energy of the particles in an object.
What is heat?
The energy that is transferred between two objects because of a difference in their temperatures
Does an endothermic process absorb of release energy?
Absorbs
Does an exothermic process absorb of release energy?
Releases
What’s a system?
All components that are being studied
What is the surroundings?
Everything outside of the system
What are the 6 different forms of energy?
Chemical, electrical, mechanical, sound, heat, light.
How many significant figures are in 10.0005?
6
How many significant figures are in 0.003465?
4
How many significant figures are in 43000?
2
How many significant figures are in 6.43?
3
How many significant figures are in 7.4x10^4?
2
Round 532.35 to 4 significant figures.
532.4
Round 45,632 to 3 significant figures.
45,600
What does Cp symbolize?
Specific heat
What does q symbolize?
Energy
How do you add and subtract using significant figures?
How many numbers there awe to the right of the decimal.
How to you multiply and divide using significant figures?
You’re looking at the least amount of total significant figures