Thermodynamics Picture Vocabulary Quiz

Atom

• The smallest unit of an element that has all of the properties of that element; contains a nucleus with a surrounding electron cloud.
• The transfer of thermal energy through currents in fluids.
• The emission or transmission of energy as particles or waves.
• The hotness or coldness of matter as related to the average kinetic energy of the molecules of that substance.

Conduction

• The transfer of energy from one medium to another through direct contact
• The law stating that, when left to itself, a system's entropy always increases, never decreases; also known as the law of entropy
• The study of the changes in the thermal properties of a system.
• The smallest unit of an element that has all of the properties of that element; contains a nucleus with a surrounding electron cloud.

Convection

• The transfer of thermal energy through currents in fluids.
• The internal energy of a system, including the kinetic and potential energy of its particles.
• The emission or transmission of energy as particles or waves.
• The transfer of energy from one medium to another through direct contact

Heat

• Energy transferred between two objects of different temperatures, moving continually in a predictable pattern from warmer site to cooler site until all sites have reached the same temperature.
• The emission or transmission of energy as particles or waves.
• The law stating that the total change in the internal energy of a system is the sum of the work done on the system and the heat energy added to it: E = q + w
• The smallest unit of an element that has all of the properties of that element; contains a nucleus with a surrounding electron cloud.

Radiation

• The emission or transmission of energy as particles or waves.
• The hotness or coldness of matter as related to the average kinetic energy of the molecules of that substance.
• A thermodynamic law that explains thermal equilibrium, or a system that does not gain or lose thermal energy
• The law stating that as the temperature of a system approaches absolute zero, the entropy of the system will also approach zero.

Temperature

• The hotness or coldness of matter as related to the average kinetic energy of the molecules of that substance.
• The emission or transmission of energy as particles or waves.
• The law stating that, when left to itself, a system's entropy always increases, never decreases; also known as the law of entropy
• The internal energy of a system, including the kinetic and potential energy of its particles.

The first law of thermodynamics

• The law stating that the total change in the internal energy of a system is the sum of the work done on the system and the heat energy added to it: E = q + w
• The law stating that, when left to itself, a system's entropy always increases, never decreases; also known as the law of entropy
• The law stating that as the temperature of a system approaches absolute zero, the entropy of the system will also approach zero.
• A thermodynamic law that explains thermal equilibrium, or a system that does not gain or lose thermal energy

The second law of thermodynamics

• The law stating that, when left to itself, a system's entropy always increases, never decreases; also known as the law of entropy
• The law stating that the total change in the internal energy of a system is the sum of the work done on the system and the heat energy added to it: E = q + w
• The law stating that as the temperature of a system approaches absolute zero, the entropy of the system will also approach zero.
• A thermodynamic law that explains thermal equilibrium, or a system that does not gain or lose thermal energy

The third law of thermodynamics

• The law stating that as the temperature of a system approaches absolute zero, the entropy of the system will also approach zero.
• The law stating that the total change in the internal energy of a system is the sum of the work done on the system and the heat energy added to it: E = q + w
• The law stating that, when left to itself, a system's entropy always increases, never decreases; also known as the law of entropy
• A thermodynamic law that explains thermal equilibrium, or a system that does not gain or lose thermal energy

The Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics

• A thermodynamic law that explains thermal equilibrium, or a system that does not gain or lose thermal energy
• The law stating that the total change in the internal energy of a system is the sum of the work done on the system and the heat energy added to it: E = q + w
• The law stating that, when left to itself, a system's entropy always increases, never decreases; also known as the law of entropy
• The law stating that as the temperature of a system approaches absolute zero, the entropy of the system will also approach zero.