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| The person who build the first steam engine. |
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Name of the steam engine invented by Thomas Newcomen. |
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| Person who's steam engine had steam driving the piston in two directions and was largely responsible for the rapid development of the Industrial Revolution. |
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| Early theory of matter put forth by Empedocles stated that matter was composed of these four elements. |
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| earth, air, fire, and water |
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| This was thought to be an invisible fluid that was contained in all objects that could burn, and that when these objects burned this fluid flowed out of the object. |
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This was thought to be a massless fluid found in all substances. It could not be created nor destroyed, but could flow from one substance to another, and always flowed from warmer objects to cooler objects. |
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| The quantitative definition, put forth by Joseph Black, of what a calorie was equal to. |
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| the amount of caloric that would raise the temperature of 1g of water by 1oC |
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| What Count Rumford said heat was. |
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| Energy is measured in this unit. |
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| work is a measure of energy. |
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| Mathematical formula for calculating work. |
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W=Fd work = force x displacement |
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| When given a graph of force vs. time, the method of determining work. |
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| find the area under the line |
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| The modern definition of the calorie. |
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| the amount of energy that must be added to 1g of water to increase its temperature by 1oC. |
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| One calorie is equivalent to how many joules? |
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| The law of conservation of energy. |
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| energy cannot be created or destroyed only changed from one form to another |
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| The name of the current theory of heat. |
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| the kinetic-molecular theory |
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| The term that has replaced the word "heat". |
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| The modern definition of heat. |
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| the transfer of thermal energy from one object to another. |
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| The term for the amound of energy required to raise the temperature of 1 g of a substance by 1 oC. |
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| The symbol used for specific heat capacity. |
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The specific heat capacity of water. |
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| Definition of temperature. |
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| a measure of the average kinetic energy of the individual atoms or molecules in a substance |
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| The field of physics that deals with forces and motion involving heat. |
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The first law of thermodynamics |
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| energy cannot be created nor destroyed only transformed from one form to another or transferred from one object to another |
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| The second law of thermodynamics |
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it is not possible for any process to remove thermal energy from an energy source and convert it entirely to work (no process can be 100% efficient) |
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