The measure of the average kinetic energy of the particles in an object.
What is temperature?
100
A heating system in which fuel is burned in a furnace, and the warm air is blown through large pipes called ducts.
What is a Forced-Air Heating system?
100
A change from one form of energy to another.
What is an energy transformation?
100
mass(kg) * acceleration of gravity(9.8m/s) * height(m) = _______
What is the equation for Gravitational Potential Energy?
200
Stored energy due to position
What is potential energy?
200
The flow of thermal energy from something at a higher temperature to something at a lower temperature.
What is heat?
200
A heating system in which fuel is burned in a central furnace, heats a tank of water, and is carried by a system of pipes to radiators.
What is a radiator heating system?
200
The transfer of thermal energy by collisions between particles in matter.
What is conduction?
200
potential energy + kinetic energy = ______
What is the equation for Mechanical Energy
300
Energy stored by something that can stretch or compress.
What is elastic potential energy?
300
States that energy cannot be created or destroyed.
What is the Law of Conservation of energy?
300
A heating system in which there is no central furnace; rather electrically heating coils heat the surrounding air by conduction.
What is an electric heating system?
300
The transfer of thermal energy in a fluid by the movement of warmer and cooler fluid from place to place.
What is convection?
300
1/2mv2 = _____
What is the kinetic energy equation?
400
Energy stored in chemical bonds.
What is chemical potential energy?
400
The SI unit of energy.
What is a joule (J)?
400
A heating system in which materials inside a building absorb radiant energy, and the material provide the heat when the room cools; heat is gained by windows in the south side of the house.
What is a passive solar heating system?
400
The transfer of energy by electromagnetic waves.
What is radiation?
400
4,184 J = 1 C
What is the equation for Joules to Calories?
500
Total amount of potential and kinetic energy in a system.
What is mechanical energy?
500
The amount of heat that is needed to raise the temperature of 1 kg of some material by 1ºC.
What is specific heat?
500
A heating system in which solar collectors absorb radiant energy from the Sun
What is an active solar heating system?
500
A material in which heat flows slowly; opposite of a conductor.
What is an insulator?
500
mass(kg) * change in temperature(ºC) * specific heat (J/kgºC) = ________