thermal energy and heat vocab
Across
- 2. material that conducts thermal energy well
- 7. an instrument use to measure changes in thermal energy
- 10. device that reverses the normal flow of thermal energy
- 11. burns fuel outside the engine ex. steam engine
- 12. the amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of a substance by 1 degree celsius
- 15. fluid that vaporizes and condenses inside the tubing of a heat pump
- 16. equal to 0 K; temperature at which all molecular motion stops
- 17. any device that converts thermal energy into work
- 19. increase in volume of a material due to an increase in temperature
Down
- 1. burns fuel inside the engine ex. car
- 3. heats many rooms from one central location
- 4. transfer of thermal energy through a fluid
- 5. transfer of heat when two objects touch with no overall transfer of matter
- 6. transfer of energy by waves moving through space
- 8. a measure of how hot or cold an object is
- 9. a material that conducts thermal energy poorly
- 13. occurs when a fluid circulates in a loop as it alternately heats up and cools down
- 14. study of the conversion between thermal energy and other forms of energy
- 18. transfer of thermal energy from one object to another because of a temperature difference