Heat And Heat Currents Flashcards

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Conduction

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Heat transfer within a material or between materials that are touching is conduction.

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Radiation

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Transfers with no direct contact between an heat source and object like how we get heat from the sun.

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Convection

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Is heat transfer by the movements of currents within a fluid

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Convection currents

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The flow that transfers heat within a fluid

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Density

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A measure of how much there is in a volume of a substance

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