Chem Vocab Ch.2.1 Flashcards
Calorie
The amount of heat necessary to warm one gram of water to degrees Celsius
Energy
The ability to do work
Heat
Energy that is transferred as a consequence of temperature differences
Hypothesis
An educated guess that attempts to explain some aspect of the world around us
Kinetic Energy
Energy that is in motion
Potential Energy
Energy that is stored
Scientific law
an educated guess that has been confirmed over and over again by experimentation
Specific heat
The amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of 1 gram of a substance by 1 degree Celsius
The First law of Thermodynamics
Energy cannot be created or destroyed. I can only change form
Theory
Once a hypothesis if confirmed by more rigorous experimentation
Work
The force applied to an object times the distance that the object travels parallel to that force
Joule
The metric unit for energy
