A measure of chaos or disorder.
What is entropy?
Explain heat source and heat sink (give an example).
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Any device that slows down the flow of electricity.
What is a resistor?
The law of thermodynamics states that energy (heat) can not be created or destroyed.
What is the 1st Law (Law of Conservation)?
Material that allows electricity and/or heat to transfer through.
What is a conductor?
Warming that occurs when a heat source and heat sink are TOUCHING eachother.
What is conduction?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
Warming that occurs in the ocean, boiling water, and gasses.
What is convection?
Devices used to open or close a circuit.
What is a switch?
The law of thermodynamics that state that at absolute zero entropy (pretty much) stops.
What is the 3rd Law of Thermodynamics?
A material that stops or inhibits the flow of heat or electricity.
What is an insulator?
When the warm air over the land rises and the cooler air from the ocean rushes inland.
What is a seabreeze?
When the warm air over the ocean rises, allowing the cooler air from the land to rush seaward.
What is a land breeze?
The circular path that electricity takes.
What is a circuit?
The law of thermodynamics that states that systems move from a state of order to a state of disorder (entropy).
What is the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics?
Potential energy that is stored as an electrical charge.
What is static electricity (electrostatic)?
The temperature scale used mostly for science, measuring the hottest and coldest temperatures.
What is Kelvin?
The scale for measuring temperatures that is used mostly outside of the US and works well with the metric system.
What is celsius?
An electrical current, like that produced by batteries, that always flows in the same direction.
What is direct current?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
The law of thermodynamics that states that if two systems are in equalibrium, then no transfer of heat will take place.
What is the Zeroth Law?
The complex system that allows electricity to be delivered to our homes, business, and schools.
What is the power (electric) grid?
The three elements of the fire triangle.
(i.e. what does fire need?)
Fuel, Oxygen, Heat
When things heat up and expand.
What is thermal expansion?
An electrical current, like that flowing into your home, that periodically reverses direction.
What is alternating current?
Which law of thermodynamics was developed last?
The Zeroth!
A circuit that allows electricity to take mulitiple paths.
What is a parallel circuit?