Terminology Flashcards
Solid
It is characterized by structural rigidity and resistance to changes of shape or volume.
Absorb
take in or soak up (energy or a liquid or other substance) by chemical or physical action.
Vibrate
1.
move continuously and rapidly to and fro.
Expansion
the act of increasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope
Particles
1.
a minute portion of matter.
Conductors
Conductors are materials that permit electrons to flow freely from particle to particle. An object made of a conducting material will permit charge to be transferred across the entire surface of the object.
Convection current
Convection is the transfer of heat through a fluid by the physical movement of the fluid itself, and convection currents are those movements
Temperature
the degree or intensity of heat present in a substance or object, especially as expressed according to a comparative scale and shown by a thermometer or perceived by touch.
Reflection
1.
the throwing back by a body or surface of light, heat, or sound without absorbing it.
“the reflection of light”
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Radiation
1.
PHYSICS
the emission of energy as electromagnetic waves. The transfer of heat from a body of high heat energy to its surroundings or body of Low heat energy
Energy
energy, in physics, the capacity for doing work. It may exist in potential, kinetic, thermal, electrical, chemical, nuclear, or other various forms. There are, moreover, heat and work—i.e., energy in the process of transfer from one body to another.Dec 9, 2014
Covection
The movement of hotter less dense fluids upwards which replaces more dense colder fluid downwards.
Heat
1.
the quality of being hot; high temperature.
Insulators
a substance which does not readily allow the passage of heat or sound.
Gas
1.
an air-like fluid substance which expands freely to fill any space available, irrespective of its quantity.
