Thermal Energy Transfer Flashcards
(13 cards)
What is Matter?
What are States of Matter?
What is Energy?
What is Kinetic Energy?
The energy of an object because of motion.
What is Thermal Energy?
The total energy of all the moving particles of an object.
What is Temperature?
The average kinetic energy of the particles in an object.
What is Heat?
The transfer of energy from warmer objects to cooler objects due to temperature differences.
What is Conduction?
The transfer of heat energy through solid materials by touching or direct contact.
What is Convection?
The transfer of heat in a fluid (air or liquid) where hotter, less dense fluids rise, and cooler more dense fluids sink.
What is Radiation?
The transfer of heat through empty space by invisible, electromagnetic waves.
What is Thermal Equilibrium?
A state in which two objects in contact reach the same temperature.
What is Conductor?
Materials that allow heat energy to move through them efficiently.
What is an Insulator?
Materials that don’t allow heat energy to pass through them.
