Kinetic and Potenial Energy
This is the ablilty to cause change.
What is energy?
Pg. 197
This is how warm or cold something is.
What is temperature?
Pg.199
The transfer of thermal energy between materials by the collisions of particles.
What is conduction?
Pg. 206
This is a decrease in a material's volume when its tempeature decreases.
What is thermal contraction?
Pg. 208
A device that converts electric energy into thermal energy.
What is a heating appliance.
Pg. 215
This is kinetic energy.
What is the energy an object or a particle has because it is moving?
Pg. 197
This is used to measure temperature.
What is a thermometer?
Pg. 200
A material through which thermal energy flows easily.
What is thermal conductors.
Pg. 206
This is an increase in a material's volume when its temperature increases.
What is thermal expanison?
Pg. 208
3 examples of a heating appliance.
What is curling irons, coffee makers, and clothes irons?
Pg. 215
This is potenial energy.
What is stored energy due to the interaction between two objects?
Pg.197
The greater the _____ _____ of the particles the greater the temperature.
What is kinetic energy?
Pg.199
The amount of thermal energy required to increase the tempeature of 1kg of a material by 1 Celsius.
What is specific heat?
Pg.207
This is a example of thermal expansion.
What is a sidewalk in the summer?
Pg. 208
Something that cannot be created or destroyed.
What is energy?
Pg. 215
This is potenial energy plus the kinetic energy.
What is mechanical energy?
Pg.197
Scientists use this scale to measure things.
What is the kelvin scale?
Pg. 200
_____ _______ have a lower specific heat than ______ _______.
What is thermal conductors and thermal insulators.
Pg. 207
This is another example of thermal expansion.
What is a hot- air balloon?
Pg. 209
The ________ _____ that most electronic devices generate are not used for any purpose.
What is thermal energy?
Pg. 215
This is gravity acting down on something.
What is gravitonal potential energy?
Pg.197
This is measured to determine how fast particles move.
What is kinetic energy?
Pg.199
The specific heat of water is particularly ____.
What is high?
Pg. 207
This is a example of thermal contraction.
What is ovenproof glass?
Pg. 209
Thermostats transfer ______ ____ into __________ ______ that switches heaters on and off.
What is thermal energy and mechanical energy?
Pg. 215