Mechanical Energy
This type of energy is associated with an object's motion and position.
What is mechanical energy?
This type of energy is associated with kinetic and potential energy of particles.
What is thermal energy?
This type of thermal energy transfer occurs via physical contact with a heat source.
What is conduction?
This type of energy transformation is common amongst heating appliances.
What is electric to thermal energy?
This change occurs when objects shrink as a result of a decrease in thermal energy.
What is thermal contraction?
This type of mechanical energy is associated with position.
What is potential energy?
This is an average of a particle's kinetic energy.
What is temperature?
This type of thermal energy transfer occurs from non-physical contact with a heat source.
What is radiation?
This device regulates the temperatures within a system.
What is a thermostat?
The amount of thermal energy needed raise an object's temperature by 1 degree Celsius.
What is specific heat?
This type of mechanical energy is associated with motion.
This is the transfer of thermal energy.
What is heat?
Thermal energy, if transferred between objects, will continue this process until they reach what state of being?
What is equilibrium?
This device transfers thermal energy from one location to another.
What is a refrigerator?
This concept of convection extends to the atmosphere and bodies of water around the world.
What is a convection current?
This is the word we use to describe that energy is constant--that it can neither be created nor destroyed.
What is conserved?
This is the temperature in degrees Celsius of absolute zero.
What is -273 degrees Celsius?
These easily allow the transfer of thermal energy.
What is a thermal conductor?
This machine converts thermal energy to mechanical energy.
What is a heat engine?
Will a conductor have a high or low specific heat?
Low specific heat
This is the difference between thermal energy and mechanical energy.
Thermal energy pertains to particles while mechanical energy pertains to macroscopic objects
This occurs as a result when objects get larger as a result of an increase in thermal energy.
What is thermal expansion?
The ability for a material to conduct thermal energy is dependent upon this atomic configuration.
What is electron configuration?
This the name of the fluid used to trap thermal energy during transfers.
What is coolant?
This does not easily allow the transfer of thermal energy.
What is a thermal insulator?