Thermal Energy

Question 1

Thermal energy

Answer 1

Sum of the kinetic and potential energy of the particles that make up an object.

Question 2

Specific heat

Answer 2

Amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of 1 kg of a material 1 c

Question 3

Heat

Answer 3

Energy that is transferred between objects due to a temperature difference between those objects

Question 4

Conduction

Answer 4

Transfer of thermal energy by collisions between the particles that make up matter.

Question 5

Convection

Answer 5

Transfer of thermal energy in a fluid by the movement of warmer and cooler fluid from one place to another.

Question 6

Radiation

Answer 6

Transfer of energy by electromagnetic waves.

Question 7

Thermal insulator

Answer 7

A material through which thermal energy moves slowly

Question 8

Solar collector

Answer 8

Device used in an active solar heating system that transforms radiant energy from the sun into thermal energy

Question 9

Thermodynamics

Answer 9

Study of the relationship between thermal energy heat and work

Question 10

1st law of thermodynamics

Answer 10

Study of the relationship between thermal energy heat and work

Question 11

2nd law of thermodynamics

Answer 11

Relationship between thermal energy heat and work

Question 12

Temperature

Answer 12

Measure of the average kinetic energy of all the particles that make up an object.