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How does the fluid in a thermometer rise?
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Liquid expansion
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How is energy transferred as heat?
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Substance at higher temperature to a substance at a lower temperature
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Know the freezing and boiling points for each of the scales used to measure temperature.
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Fahrenheit: Freezing-32, Boiling-212.
Celsius: Freezing-0, Boiling- 100Kelvin: Freezing- (-275), Boiling- 375 |
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Know examples of conductors.
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Liquids, gases.
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Know examples of insulators.
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Medals
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Relate conductors and insulators to energy transfer.
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To stop unwanted energy transfer, use materials that are poor conductors.
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What is temperature?
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A measure of the average kinetic energy of all the particles within an object.
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Understand how energy is transferred by conduction, convection, and radiation.
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Conduction- as heat between particles as they collide within a substance, convection- fluids, radiation- electromagnetic waves
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Which method of energy transfer does not involve the movement of matter?
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Radiation
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What is specific heat?
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Describes how much energy is required to raise an object's temperature.
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