Heat Transfer Flashcards
1
Q
Law of conservation of enegry
A
enegery cannot be created or destryoed just tranformed
2
Q
Heat
A
thermal engery that flows due to a difference in tempature
3
Q
Heat transfer
A
a method by which heat flows
4
Q
conduction
A
heat transfer between sold objdcts
5
Q
Convection
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heat transfer into or out of fluids
6
Q
Radiation
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heat transfer due to pockets of enegery called photons that can travel through many substances even empty space
7
Q
insulator
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a material in which enegeryr cant easily flow thorugh
8
Q
conductor
A
a maetial in which energy can easily be transformed
9
Q
tempature
A
the measure of the avergae speed of particles
10
Q
thermal enegry
A
the toal enegry of all particles in an object
