Energy and Heat Transfer vocab Flashcards

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Energy cannot be created or destroyed just transformed (under normal conditions).

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Law of conservation energy

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Thermal energy that flows due to a difference in temperature. Heat flows from hot to cold.

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Heat

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A method by which heat flows ( conduction, convection, radiation)

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Heat transfer

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4
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A heat transfer within between solid objects

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conduction

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5
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A heat transfer into or out of fluids

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Convection

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Heat transfer due to the ppockets of energy called photons that can travel through many substances even empty space.

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Radiation

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A material through which energy ( electrical, thermal or sound) cannot be easily transformed.

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Insulator

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A material through which energy ( electrical, thermal, or sound) cannot be easily transformed.

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Conductor

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The measure of the average speed of all particles

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Temperature

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10
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The total energy of all particles in an object

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Thermal energy

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