Energy & Heat Transfer Vocabulary Flashcards
1
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Law of conservation of energy
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Energy cannot be created or destroyed just transformed
2
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heat
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thermal energy that flows due a difference temp. Heat flows form hot to cold
3
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heat transfer
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A method by witch heat flows (conduction, convetshin)
4
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conduct
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heat transfer within or between solid objects
5
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convection
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heat transfers in and out of fluids
6
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radiation
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Heat transfer due to packets of energy called photons
7
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insulator
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a material through which energy cannot be easily transferred.
8
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conductor
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A material through which energy can be easily transferred
9
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temperature
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the measure of the average speed of particles
10
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thermal energy
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the total energy of all particles in an object
