Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer

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Temperature

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Measure of the average kinetic energy of all the particles that make up an object.

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Thermal energy

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Sum of the kinetic and potential energy of the particles that make up an object.

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Specific heat

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Amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of 1 kg of a material 1℃.

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Heat

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Energy that is transferred between objects due to a temperature difference between those objects.

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Conduction

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Transfer of thermal energy by collisions between the particles that make up matter.

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Convection

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Transfer of thermal energy in a fluid by the movement of warmer and cooler fluid from one place to another.

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Radiation

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Transfer of energy by electromagnetic waves.

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Thermal insulator

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A material through which thermal energy moves slowly.

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Solar collector

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Device used in an active solar heating system that transforms radiant energy from the sun into thermal energy.

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Thermodynamics

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Study of the relationship between thermal energy, heat, and work.