Flowing Heat
Heating from particle to particle
What is conduction?
Energy due to motion
What is kinetic energy?
Measure of the average kinetic energy in an object?
Allows thermal energy to flow easily
What is a thermal conductor?
Energy stored in an object.
What is potential energy?
Heating via through a gas or a liquid
What is convection?
Energy in the form of heat.
What is thermal energy?
The amount of heat required to heat up an object by 1C
Something that blocks thermal energy from flowing easily.
What is a thermal insulator?
When more thermal energy causes an object to expand.
What is thermal expansion?
Heating through open space via electromagnetic waves.
What is radiation?
When less thermal energy causes an object to contract.
What is thermal contraction?
Potential energy due to gravity.
What is gravitational potential energy?