Data Analysis: Thermal Energy Movement in Systems

By Lacy Barnett

​Think-Write-RoundRobin

Analyze the data. How do patterns in the data in each table relate to thermal energy moving from warmer to cooler objects?

Multiple Choice

Two objects have different temperatures. Object A has a temperature of 42 degrees and Object B is 37 degrees. Which direction should the energy transfer between Objects A and B?

• From Object A to Object B

• From Object B to Object A

• Energy will not transfer

• Energy will transfer both directions

Multiple Choice

Thermal Equilibrium basically means...

• When the temperature of 2 objects wants to be equal, balanced, the same

• When the temperature of 2 objects wants to be different and uneven

• hot or cold

• The average kinetic energy of a substance or object

​Round Table Consensus

Which pair of objects has reached thermal equilibrium? Explain.

Multiple Choice

What would the temperature be for these two objects after thermal equilibrium

• 100 and 0

• 40 and 40

• 50 and 50

• 70 and 30

Multiple Choice

When you put ice into a drink what happens?

• The ice puts cold into the drink

• The heat leaves the drink and goes into the ice

• nothing

Multiple Choice

If it is very cold outside and you start feeling cold, what happened?

• The cold is going into your body and making you cold

• You are losing thermal energy (heat) from your body to the cold environment

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Data for another pair of objects are shown in the table below. A classmate claims the objects are a closed system that has reached thermal equilibrium. Explain why your classmate is wrong. What is a possible explanation?