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Details Title: Heat Description: Chapter 10 Total Flash Cards: 10 Created: 04/26/2004 16:39:39	To study from this set of flash cards, or to create your own your own study flash cards, register HERE. If you are already a registered user, CLICK HERE.
Cards Term Internal energy Definition the energy of a substance due to the random motions of its component particles and equal to the total energy of those particles Term Thermal equilibrium Definition the state in which two bodies in pyshical contact wiht each other have identical temperatures Term Heat Definition the energy transferred between odjects because of a difference in their temperatures Term Specific heat capacity Definition the quantit of evergy needed to raise the temperature of 1 kg of a substance by 1°C at constant pressure Term Calorimetry Definition an experimental procedureused to measure the energy transferred from one substance to another as heat Term Phase change Definition the phyiscal change of a substance from one state (solid,liquid, or gas) to another at constant temperature and pressure Term Heat of Fusion Definition the energy per unit mass transferred in order to change a substane from solid to liquid or from liquid to solid at constant temperature and pressure Term Heat of Vaporization Definition the energy per unit mass transferreed in order to change a substance deom liquid to vapor or from vapor to liquid at constant temperature and pressure Term Latent heat Definition the energy per unit mass that is transferred during a phase chnage of a substance Term Thermal conduction Definition the process by which energy is transferred as heat through a material between two points at different temperatures