Thermal Energy
The average kinetic energy of the particles that make up a material.
What is temperature
Which has more thermal energy...and iceberg or a cup of water?
What is an iceberg?
Transfer of thermal energy by waves
What is Radiation
Objects that do not make good conductors may be good?
What are insulators?
A resting soccer ball has______energy
What is potential
This object measures temperature.
What is thermometer
Heat rising and cooling to form currents in a fluid
What is convection?
Material through which thermal energy flows easily.
What are conductors
A converts thermal energy to mechanical energy?
What is a heat engine?
All mass has what type of energy?
What is Thermal Energy
Often times, people confuse thermal energy and _____, thinking they are the same thing, but they are not.
What is heat?
what has more thermal energy:
The Pacific Ocean or Kentucky Lake
What is the Pacific?
Transfer of thermal energy between materials by collision of particles. (If the particles are colliding, they are touching.)
What is Conduction?
What type of heat engine converts external thermal energy to mechanical power?
What is an external combustion engine?
The Three ways thermal energy is transferred are...
What is Radiation, Conduction, Convection
Fluids can be liquids or?
What are gasses?
heat flows from
warmer to cooler temperature
Radiation travels this way...
What are waves?
What type of heat engine does combustion inside the mechanical parts of an engine?
what is an internal combustion engine?
True or false: Metals are good conductors of thermal energy
True
What is the SI unit to measure temperature?
What is Celcius?
One of the best conductors
What is copper (or metals)?
What type of heat transfer is it when you slide your hands together back and forth to warm them?
What is conduction?
Name an everyday usage of internal combustion.
What is modern automobiles?
A pendulum converts energy to energy?
potential to kinetic or vice versa?
Absolute zero is (temperature)?
what is 0Ëškelvin?
2 separate ice cubes are present. Cube A has a volume of four cubic centimeters. Cube B has a volume of two cubic centimeters. Which has more thermal energy?
Cube A has more thermal energy than cube B
what is the metric unit for temperature
What is celsius
opposite of conductors
what are insulators
A central heat and air system would heat the interior of a home by making what types of currents in the house?
what are convection currents?