Question | Answer |
What is British thermal unit(Btu)? | The quantity of heat it takes to increase the temperature of one pound of water by 1 degree Fahreheit. |
What is calorie? | The quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of one gram of water by 1 degree Celsius. |
What is Celsius scale? | A temperature scale on which zero equals the temperatler that water breezes and 100 is the temperature that water boils. |
What is conduction? | The transfer of thermal energy by the direct contact of particles of matter. |
What is covection? | The transfer of thermal energy by the actual motion of a fluid in the form of currents. |
What is Fahrenheit scale? | A temperature scale on which water freezes at 32 degrees and water boils at 212 degrees. |
What is the first law of thermodynamics? | States that energy in a closed system is conserved. |
What is heat? | The flow of thermal energy from one object to another object due to a temperature difference. |
What is heat-temperature rule? | |
What is joule? | A unit for measuring work. |
What is latent heat? | The heat used to melt, boil, or evaporate a substance and released when a substance condenses or freezes. |
What is radiation? | A term used to describe the particles and energy that are emitted from radioactive substances. |
What is specific heat? | A property of a substance that tells us how much heat is needed to raise the temperature of one gram by 1 degree celsius. |
What is temperature? | The measurement used to quantify the sensations of holt and cold. |
What is thermal conductor? | A material that easily conducts heat. |
What is thermal energy? | The sum of all kinetic energy of a material's atoms and molecules. |
What is thermal equilibrium? | A state that results when heat flows from a hot object to a cold object until they are at the same temperature. |
What is thermal insulator? | A material that conducts heat poorly. |
What is thermometer? | Detect a phiscial change in a material that results from a change in temperature. |
What is thermostat? | x |