Quiz 9, Lesson 37
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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.
