Keep Your Cool Flashcards
The amount of heat energy stored in something depends on
It’s temp
It’s matiral
It’s mass
How does heat energy flow
Heat always travel from hot to cold cool objects become hotter and the hot one becomes cold until they are the same temp
What’s a conductor
Something that lets energy flow through
What’s a insulator
Does let energy flow through
Why do materials expand when heated
Because the extra vibrations need more space to move
Convection currents
Cold water sinks to the bottom and hot to the top because the same mass of fluid is taking up more space is only part is being heated it starts to rise because it’s less dense cooler fluids move to take its place
What happens when a substance changes state
Energy is given
out when partials
go back to their fixed positions
Freezing
Ice. Water
Melting Energy is needed to make the partials break away from there fixed positions in to the solid
How does heat from the sun travel
Through radiation
How is infrared radiation similar to light
It doesn’t need anything to travel through and can also go through transparent substances
Ways of using infrared radiation
For cooking
Heating
Communications signals
What is the difference of heat and temp
Temp describes how hot of cold something is •c
Heat. Is a form of energy joules