Quiz 9, Lesson 37

Discovered the mechanical equivalent of heat.

(James Prescott) Joule

A measure of the amount of disorder in a system

Entropy

Currents within a liquid caused by heated fluid rising and cooler fluid sinking.

Convection currents

A container used to store liquified gases

Dewar flask

The heat required to change a given mass of a solid into a liquid without changing its temperature.

Heat of fusion

The method of heat transfer that does not require matter.

Radiation

Thermodynamics

The branch of physics that deals with thermal energy, heat, and their relationships to other forms of energy.

Melting

The changing of a solid into a liquid

Carnot

The founder of the science of thermodynamics

Conduction

The process by which heat flows between objects in direct contact.