Energy and Heat Transfer Vocabulary Flashcards
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Law of Conversion of energy
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Energy can not be created or destroyed, just transformed (under normal conditions).
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Heat
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Thermal energy flows due to a difference in temperature. Heat flows from hot to cold.
3
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Heat transfer
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A method by which heat flows (conduction, convection, radiation).
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Conduction
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Heat transfer within or between solid objects.
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Convection
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Heat transfer into or out of fluids.
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Radiation
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Heat transfer due to packets of energy called photons that can travel through many substances, even empty space.
