Forms of Energy
The energy of an object in motion and the stored energy of an object.
What is Kinetic and Potential Energy?
The transfer of heat between two objects that are directly touching
What is Conduction?
Pots, Forks, Metals
What are conductors?
Water boils at 100 degrees
What is Celsius?
Materials that cannot easily pass thermal energy
What are insulators?
Energy generated from the suns radiation.
What is solar energy?
The transfer of heat through a liquid or a gas
What is Convection?
Plastic, rubber, styrofoam
What are insulators?
Water boils at 212 degrees
What is Fahrenheit?
Materials that can easily pass thermal energy
What are conductors?
Energy produced by the movement of electrons from one object to another
What is electrical energy?
The transfer of heat and energy through electromagnetic rays
What is radiation?
What is conduction?
A freezing point of 0 degrees
What is Celsius
The principle that states the pressure of a fluid in a container is equal in every direction?
What is Pascals Principle?
The energy contained in an object, responsible for an objects temperature
What is Thermal Energy
Particles that have little to no Kinetic energy, but a large amount of potential energy
What are hot particles?
Flame, Breeze, Steam
What is convection?
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What is Celsius to Fahrenheit?
Particles that have little to no Kinetic energy, but a large amount of potential energy
What are cold particles?
The energy produced by the vibration and collision of air molecules
What is Sound energy?
The rising of a less dense, hotter fluid pushing a denser, colder fluid creating a cycle
What is a convection current?
Microwave, Suns UV rays, X-ray
What is radiation?
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What is Fahrenheit to Celsius
An object releasing heat to its surroundings, until there is a balanced temperature
What is Thermal Equilibrium?