Basic Science JSS2 Second Term

WEEK TEN

TOPIC: THERMAL ENERGY II

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Precious seed BASIC SCIENCE FOR JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS BOOK 2

TOPIC: THERMAL ENERGY II

Temperature is a measure of the average amount of kinetic energy possessed by the particles in a sample of matter. The more the particles vibrate, translate and rotate, the greater the temperature of the object. You have hopefully adopted an understanding of heat as a flow of energy from a higher temperature object to a lower temperature object. It is the temperature difference between the two neighboring objects that causes this heat transfer. Heat is transferred from the hot water to the cold water until both samples have the same temperature.

Conductive heat flow involves the transfer of heat from one location to another in the absence of any material flow. The mechanism in which heat is transferred from one object to another object through particle collisions.... View More