Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Heating and Cooling
- Condensation
- A liquid can freeze or a gas can condense if it loses enough heat energy.
- Changes of State
- A solid can melt or a liquid can evaporate or boil if it gets enough heat energy.
- Temperature
- Temperature is an important measurement.
- Temperature tells us how hot or cold something is.
- Temperature is measured with a thermometer.
- Temperature is measured in degrees Celsius.
- Heat Transfer
- Depend on transfer of heat energy.
- Heat energy is measured in joules.
- Heat energy transfers from hot to cold.
- Heat transfer happens in three ways.
- Conduction is the method of heat transfer in solids.
- Metals are good thermal conductors.
- Non-metals like plastic, and particularly air, are poor thermal conductors.
- Poor thermal conductors are called thermal insulators.
- Convection happens in liquids and gases.
- Hot liquid or gas rises up through colder liquid or gas.
- Heat radiation carries heat energy across empty space at high speed.
- Shiny white surfaces are poor absorbers and good reflectors of radiated heat.
- Heat energy reaches the Earth from the Sun by this method.
- Dull black surfaces are good absorbers of radiated heat.