Heat Transfer Vocabulary

Question 1

Law of Conservation of Energy

Answer 1

Energy cannot be created nor destroyed just transformed (under normal conditions)

Question 2

Heat

Answer 2

Thermal energy that flows due to a difference in temperature. heat flows from hot to cold

Question 3

Heat transfer

Answer 3

A method by which heat flows through (conduction, convection, radiation).

Question 4

conduction

Answer 4

heat transfer within or between solid objects

Question 5

convection

Answer 5

heat transfers into or out of fluids

Question 6

Radiation

Answer 6

Heat transfer due to the packets of energy called photons that can travel through many substances, even empty space.

Question 7

insulator

Answer 7

a material which through energy (electrical, thermal, sound) cannot be easily transformed

Question 8

Conductor

Answer 8

A material which energy (electrical, thermal, or sound) can be easily transfered

Question 9

temperature

Answer 9

The measure of the average speed of all particles

Question 10

thermal energy

Answer 10

the total energy of all particles in an object