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Chp. 10 terms
Question | Answer |
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Temperature | measure of the average kenetic enery of the particles in an object |
How are temperature and average related? | Temperature is an average measure |
The temperature of a substance is not determined by | how much of the substance you have |
a thermometer operates off the principle of thermal | expansion |
Thermal expansion occurs when | temperature icreases |
why is a bridge built over a river or where a interstate has joints in it? | So that the road does not brake. |
heat | the transfer of energy between two objects that are at a different temperature |
Thermal energy | the total energy of the particles that make up a substance |
Thermal Equilibrium | When two objects reach the same temperature afeter touching, you know you have it when the cool or hot felling goes away |
Conduction | the transfer of thermal energy from one substance to another through contact |
conductors | substances that conduct thermal energy |
insolators | substances that do not conduct thermal energy |
covection | the transfer of thermal energy by the moving of a liquid or gas |
Radiation | the transfer of energy through matter or space as electromagnetic waves |