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What is the energy that is transferred between objects due to a temperature difference between those objects?
heat
What is the transfer of energy by electromagnetic waves?
radiation
What device is used in an active solar heating system that transforms radiant energy from the Sun into thermal energy?
solar collector
What is the heat engine that burns fuel inside the engine in chambers or cylinders?
internal combustion engine
What is the device that converts some thermal energy into mechanical energy?
heat engine
What is the transfer of thermal energy in a fluid by the movement of warmer and cooler fluid from one place to another?
convection
What is the sum of the kinetic and potential energy of the particles that make up an object?
thermal energy
What is the measure of the average kinetic energy of all the particles that make up an object?
temperature
What is the amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of 1 kg of a material 1 degree Celsius?
specific heat
What is the transfer of thermal energy by collisions between the particles that make up matter?
conduction
What is the heat engine that burns fuel inside the engine in chambers or cylinders?
internal combustion engine
What is the device used in an active solar heating system that transforms radiant energy from the Sun into thermal energy?
solar collector
What is the sum of the kinetic and potential energy of the particles that make up an object?
thermal energy
What is the transfer of thermal energy in a fluid by the movement of warmer and cooler fluid from one place to another?
convection
What is a material through which thermal energy moves slowly?
thermal insulator
What is the device that converts some thermal energy into mechanical energy?
heat engine
What is the amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of 1 kg of a material 1 degree Celsius?
specific heat
thermal insulator
What is the study of the relationship between thermal energy, heat, and work?
thermodynamics
What is the transfer of thermal energy by collisions between the particles that make up matter?
conduction
What is the study of the relationship between thermal energy, heat, and work?
thermodynamics
What states that energy spontaneously spreads from regions of higher concentration to regions of lower concentration?
second law of thermodynamics
What states that if the mechanical energy of a system is constant, the increase in the thermal energy of the system equals the sum of the thermal energy transferred into the system and the work done on the system?
first law of thermodynamics
What states that energy spontaneously spreads from regions of higher concentration to regions of lower concentration?
second law of thermodynamics
What states that if the mechanical energy of a system is constant, the increase in the thermal energy of the system equals the sum of the thermal energy transferred into the system and the work done on the system?
first law of thermodynamics