Terms
KE/PE
Conservation
Heat
Users of Heat
100
The ability to cause change.
What is energy?
100
The energy of motion.
What is Kinetic Energy?
100
States that energy cannot be created or destroyed.
What is the Law of Conservation of Energy?
100
Thermometer.
What measures temperature.
100
Heating systems that can be powered by steam and electric.
What is a radiator.
200
Amount of heat that is needed to raise the temperature of a 1 kg of some material by 1°C
What is Specific Heat?
200
KE = 1/2mv^2
What is Calculation KE?
200
Many devices convert energy from one form to another.
What is changing forms of Energy?
200
The unit for temperature.
What is ºF for English system, ºC for metric.
200
It uses air to push the heat from the system around your house.
What is a forced air system?
300
Thermal energy is transferred by the collisions between particles, not by movement of matter.
What is Conduction?
300
Stored energy due to the position.
What is Potential Energy?
300
The mass of the large nuclear on the left is greater than the combined mass of the other two nuclei and neutrons.
What is nuclear fission?
300
Measure of the average kinetic energy of the particles in an object.
What is Temperature?
300
A building design, where windows, walls, and floors are made to collect, store, and distribute solar energy in the form of heat in the winter and reject heat in the summer.
What is passive solar heating?
400
The reason why things seem to be lighter underwater.
What is Buoyancy?
400
The energy stored in a spring or rubber bands.
What is elastic potential energy?
400
Calories which is really a Kilocalorie.
What is the measurement for energy in food?
400
Amount of heat that is needed to raise the temperature of a 1 kg of some material by 1°C
What is specific heat?
400
Transfers heat from a colder area to a hotter area.
What is a Heat Pump?
500
A material in which heat flows slowly.
What is an Insulator?
500
The position above Earth.
What is GPE?
500
KE + PE
What is mechanical energy?
500
Thermal energy that flows from something at a higher temperature to something at a lower temperature.
What is Heat?
500
A process in which electric energy is converted into heat.
What is Electric Resistance Heat?