Chapter 6 Heat Terms
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- convection current
- a current caused by the rising of a heated fluid and sinking of a cooled fluid
- thermostat
- a device that regulates temperature
- external combustion engine
- an engine powered by fuel burned outside the engine
- evaporation
- vaporization that occurs at the surface of a liquid
- freezing
- the chagne from the liquid to the solid form of matter
- Specific Heat
- the amount of heat requiredc to raise the temperature of one kilogram of a substance by one Kelvin
- radiation
- the transfer of energy by electromagnetic waves
- conduction
- the transfer of heat between particles within a substance
- conductor
- a material that easily transfers heat between its particles
- boiling point
- the temperature at which a liquid substance boils
- combustion
- the process of burning a fuel to produce thermal energy
- thermal expansion
- the expansion of matter when it is heated
- melting
- the change from the solid to the liquid forms of matter
- internal combustion engine
- an engine that burns fuel inside cylinders within the engine
- condensation
- the change from the gaseous to the liquid form of matter
- heat
- thermal energy that is transferred from one substance to another
- vaporization
- the change from the liquid to the gaseous form of matter
- state
- the three forms (solid, liquid, gas) in which matter exists
- Change of State
- the physical change of matter from one state to anohter
- bimetallic strip
- a strip made up of two different materials that expand at different rates
- Celsius Scale
- the temperature scale on which zero and 100 are the freezing point and boiling point of water
- temperature
- the measure of the average kinetic energy of the particles in a substance
- heat engine
- a device that converts thermal energy into mechanical energy
- melting point
- the temperature at which a substance melts
- convection
- the transfer of heat by the movement of currents within a fluid
- Absolute Zero
- the temperature at which no more energy can be removed from matter
- Kelvin Scale
- the temperature scale on which zero is the temperature at which no more energy can be removed from matter
- freezing pint
- the temperature at which a substance freezes
- boiling
- vaporization that occurs on and below the surface of a liquid
- insulator
- a material that does not easily transfer heat between its particles
- Farhenheit Scale
- the termperature scale on which 32 and 212 are the freezing and boiling point of water