Term | Definition |
Heat | * energy in transit from a high temperature object to a lower one.
*Cannot be possessed by anything
*Correct term is "internal energy
*Always goes to a lower temperature object from a higher one. |
Conduction | *The transfer of heat between 2 parts of a stationary system
*Transmission through a conductor
*Conductivity |
Convection | *The transfer of heat by the circulation or movement of the heated parts of a liquid or gas. |
Radiation | *The process in which energy is emitted as particles or waves.
*The process in which energy is radiated by one body, transmitted through an intervening medium/space, and absorbed by another body.
* the energy transferred by these processes. |
Insulate | * To cover, line, or separate with a material that prevents or reduces the passage, transfer, or leakage of heat. |
Heat Transfer | * the process whereby heat moves from one body or substance to another by radiation, conduction, convection, or a combination of these methods. |
Celsius | * Anders Celsius, 1701-44, Swedish astronomer who devised the Celsius temperature scale,
* also, Centigrade, pertaining to or noting a temperature scale (Celsius) in which 0 degrees represents waters freezing point, and 100 degrees is boiling point. |
Fahrenheit | *Of or denoting a scale on which water freezes at 32 degrees and boils at 212 degrees under standard conditions. |
Kelvin | * A scale of temperature with absolute zero as zero, and the triple point of water as exactly 273.16 degrees. |
Thermometer | * Measures the internal energy based on standard value.
*It measures the average kinetic energy of the particles in a sample of matter, exposed in terms of units or degrees designated on a standard value. |
Therm- | *Latin- warmth |