What is heat energy transfer?

Answer 1

The heat of transformation is heat absorbed or radiated during a change of phase at a constant temperature and pressure. It is also the process where heat moves from one body or substance to another by radiation.

Answer 2

n physics, the term energy describes the capacity to produce changes within a system, without regard to limitations in transformation imposed by entropy. Changes in total energy of systems can only be accomplished by adding or subtracting energy from them, as energy is a quantity which is conserved, according to the first law of thermodynamics. According to special relativity, changes in the energy of systems will also coincide with changes in the system's mass, and the total amount of mass of a system is a measure of its energy.

Energy in a system may be transformedso that it resides in a different state. Energy in many states may be used to do many varieties of physical work. Energy may be used in natural processes or machines, or else to provide some service to society (such as heat, light, or motion). For example, an internal combustion engine converts the potential chemical energy in gasoline and oxygen into heat, which is then transformed into the propulsive energy (kinetic energy that moves a vehicle.) A solar cell converts solar radiation into electrical energy that can then be used to light a bulb or power a computer.

The generic name for a device which converts energy from one form to another is a transducer.

In general, most types of energy, save for thermal energy, may be converted to any other kind of energy, with a theoretical efficiency of 100%. Such efficiencies might occur in practice, such as when chemical potential energy is completely converted into kinetic energies, and vice versa, only in isolated systems.

Conversion of other types of energies to heat also may occur with high efficiency but a perfect level would be only possible for isolated systems also.

If there is nothing beyond the frontiers of the universe then the only real isolated system would be the universe itself. Currently we do not have the knowledge or technology to create an isolated system from a portion of the universe.

Exceptions for perfect efficiency (even for isolated systems) occur when energy has already been partly distributed among many available quantum states for a collection of particles, which are freely allowed to explore any state of momentum and position (phase space). In such circumstances, a measure called entropy, or evening-out of energy distribution in such states, dictates that future states of the system must be of at least equal evenness in energy distribution. (There is no way, taking the universe as a whole, to collect energy into fewer states, once it has spread to them).

A consequence of this requirement is that there are limitations to the efficiency with which thermal energy can be converted to other kinds of energy, since thermal energy in equilibrium at a given temperature already represents the maximal evening-out of energy between all possible states. Such energy is sometimes considered "degraded energy," because it is not entirely usable. The second law of thermodynamics is a way of stating that, for this reason, thermal energy in a system may be converted to other kinds of energy with efficiencies approaching 100%, only if the entropy (even-ness or disorder) of the universe is increased by other means, to compensate for the decrease in entropy associated with the disappearance of the thermal energy and its entropy content. Otherwise, only a part of thermal energy may be converted to other kinds of energy (and thus, useful work), since the remainder of the heat must be reserved to be transferred to a thermal reservoir at a lower temperature, in such a way that the increase in entropy for this process more than compensates for the entropy decrease associated with transformation of the rest of the heat into other types of energy.

Answer 3

• latent heat

• heat, heat energy - a form of energy that is transferred by a difference in temperature

• heat of condensation - heat liberated by a unit mass of gas at its boiling point as it condenses into a liquid; "the heat of condensation is equal to the heat of vaporization"

• heat of fusion - heat absorbed by a unit mass of a solid at its melting point in order to convert the solid into a liquid at the same temperature; "the heat of fusion is equal to the heat of solidification"

• heat of solidification - heat liberated by a unit mass of liquid at its freezing point when it solidifies

• heat of sublimation - heat absorbed by a unit mass of material when it changes from a solid to a gaseous state

• heat of vaporisation, heat of vaporization - heat absorbed by a unit mass of a material at its boiling point in order to convert the material into a gas at the same temperature.

Answer 4

Heat is a by-product of energy that is transferred from one substance to another. It is actually energy that flows between objects of different temperatures. Heat usually travels from a warmer place to a cooler place.

Source:

Smart Science 4 p. 172

Answer 5

Um it is when heat is being transfered from one place to another like an oven or microwave.

Answer 6

Thermal transformation is heat that during a change of phase is absorbed. This occurs at constant pressure and temperature.

Answer 7

Is a heating that is being move.

Answer 8

heat is transfered through any sort of conductor. so there are many ways heat can be transfered.

Answer 9

The vibrations of molecules that cause neighboring molecules to vibrate or the radiation from one body to another body.