Heat & Temperature

Question 1

Temperature

Answer 1

Measure of the hotness of an object

Question 2

Thermometric property

Answer 2

A physical property that changes measurably with temperature

Question 3

Heat Capacity

Answer 3

The heat energy needed to change the temperature substance by 1K

Question 4

Specific Heat Capacity

Answer 4

The heat energy needed to change 1kg of a substance by one kelvin

Question 5

Specific Latent heat

Answer 5

the amount of heat energy needed to change the state of 1kg of a substance without a change in temperature

Question 6

Conduction

Answer 6

The movement of heat energy through a substance by the passing on of molecular vibration from molecule to molecule, without any overall movement

Question 7

Convection

Answer 7

The transfer of heat through a fluid by means of circulating currents of fluid caused by heat

Question 8

Radiation

Answer 8

the transfer of heat energy from one place to another in the form of electromagnetic waves

Question 9

U-value

Answer 9

the amount of heat energy conducted per second through 1m squared of that structure when a temperature difference of 1K is maintained between it’s ends.

Question 10

Solar Constant

Answer 10

The average amount of the sun’s energy falling per second perpendicularly on 1 metre squared of the Earth’s atmosphere