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How does energy flow when heated or cooled?
Heat is always the transfer of energy from an object at a higher temperature to an object at a lower temperature. So energy flows from the particles in the warmer bowl to the particles in the cold ice and, later, the cooler water. The lemonade’s thermal energy decreases and the ice’s thermal energy increases.
What is the movement of a fluid from hot to cold?
Convection occurs when particles with a lot of heat energy in a liquid or gas move and take the place of particles with less heat energy. Heat energy is transferred from hot places to cooler places by convection. Liquids and gases expand when they are heated.
What happens to thermal energy when something cools down?
Energy must flow from a higher state to a lower state. In other words, heat will always be transferred from a warmer object to a cooler object. Hot objects cool down because their heat is moving out of them into the cooler objects around them.
Which heat transfer causes fluid to circulate?
Convection
Convection is the process of heat transfer from one location to the next by the movement of fluids. The moving fluid carries energy with it.
What happens to the heat energy?
As a form of energy, heat is conserved, i.e., it cannot be created or destroyed. It can, however, be transferred from one place to another. Heat can also be converted to and from other forms of energy.
What happens to heat during energy transformation?
Energy transformation, also known as energy conversion, is the process of changing energy from one form to another. For example, to heat a home, the furnace burns fuel, whose chemical potential energy is converted into thermal energy, which is then transferred to the home’s air to raise its temperature.
What happens when a liquid is heated and then evaporates?
Evaporation happens when a liquid substance becomes a gas. When water is heated, it evaporates. The molecules move and vibrate so quickly that they escape into the atmosphere as molecules of water vapor. Evaporation is a very important part of the water cycle.
Why does a liquid expand when heated?
Liquids expand for the same reason, but because the bonds between separate molecules are usually less tight they expand more than solids. Heat causes the molecules to move faster, (heat energy is converted to kinetic energy ) which means that the volume of a gas increases more than the volume of a solid or liquid.