SCI PHY Chapter 14 Vocabulary

a measure of the average energy of motion of the particles of a substance

• temperature

• kelvin scale

• energy

• specific heat

the temperature scale in which water freezes at 32 degrees and boils at 212 degrees

• Fahrenheit scale

• Kelvin scale

• Celsius scale

• specific heat

the temperature scale in which water freezes at 0 degrees and boils at 100 degrees

• Celsius scale

• Fahrenheit scale

• Kelvin scale

• specific heat

the temperature scale in which 0 is the temperature at which no more energy can be removed from matter

• Kelvin scale

• Celsius scale

• Fahrenheit scale

• specific heat

the temperature at which no more energy can be removed from matter

• absolute zero

• specific heat

• refrigerant

• freezing

thermal energy that is transferred from matter at a higher temperature to matter at a lower temperature

• heat

• specific heat

• thermal expansion

• conduction

the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram of a material by one Kelvin

• specific heat

• heat

• thermal expansion

• conduction

the transfer of heat from one particle of matter to another; a method of charging an object by allowing electrons to flow by direct contact from one object to another object

• conduction

• convection

• radiation

• thermal expansion

the transfer of heat by the movement of currents within a fluid

• convection

• conduction

• radiation

• heat

 a current caused by the rising of heated fluid and sinking of cooled fluid

• convection current

• conduction

• radiation

• heat