What is kinetic energy?
Kinetic energy is energy due to the motion of an object or objects.
What is temperature?
Temperature is a measure of the hotness or coldness of an object. Temperature is also the average kinetic energy of the particles of a substance.
What is heat?
Heat is defined as the transfer of kinetic energy from one object or region to another object or region.
What is energy?
Energy is the ability to do work.
What is thermal energy?
Thermal energy is the internal energy of an object due to the movement of its particles and is responsible for the temperature of the object.
What is a conductor?
A conductor is a material through which thermal energy can easily flow.
What is conduction?
Conduction is the process of transferring thermal energy from one substance to another by the collisions of particles without the overall transfer of matter.
What is thermal conductivity?
Thermal conductivity is a measure of how well a given material allows heat to pass through. A material with high thermal conductivity allows large amounts of heat to pass through, while low thermal conductivity allows lesser amounts of heat to pass through.
What is an insulator?
An insulator is a material that does not allow thermal energy to easily pass through.
What is a physical property?
A physical property is a characteristic of matter that can be observed and measured without changing the chemical identity of the substance. Physical properties include color, hardness, boiling point, and thermal conductivity.
What is qualitative data?
Qualitative data is data based on descriptions of the appearance of the materials and is not numbers-based.
What is quantitative data?
Quantitative data is number-based data and describes how much, how often, or how many.
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