When a firefighter slides down a pole the thermal energy comes from the friction between the two objects.
Chemical energy changes to thermal and radiant energy (heat and light).
All energy sources come in two ways. One way is by something using the energy. The other way is by something producing the energy. We use thermal energy when we heat our homes with heaters. Microwaves and ovens use thermal energy. So do toasters.
A toaster converts electrical energy into thermal energy. Some of that electrical energy may have come from a nuclear power plant.
Oh come on, open your book and read it! I will give a hint, however, there are conductors and insulators. One does not pass thermal energy easily, and the other does.
Thermal energy is useful energy. However, thermal energy is usually just heat, and not very hot heat at that. And heat, unless hot enough to boil water is a bit difficult to move and to convert into other kinds of energy. You can't run an electric motor directly off thermal energy for instance. But if you live somewhere where homes needs to be heated as opposed to cooled then thermal energy most certainly can come in handy.
The potential energy (due to the fighter's position in the Earth's gravity field). This is converted into kinetic energy as the fighter begins the slide and this kinetic energy is turned into heat energy by friction as the fighter slides.
Thermal energy comes from sun. It is a source of heat energy.
From radioactivity in the Earth's interior.
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This is thermal radiation of the Sun.
Chemical energy changes to thermal and radiant energy (heat and light).
All energy sources come in two ways. One way is by something using the energy. The other way is by something producing the energy. We use thermal energy when we heat our homes with heaters. Microwaves and ovens use thermal energy. So do toasters.
Some bounces off you and some turns into thermal energy.
Three main things come from a burning candle: light, heat, Thermal energy x
hydro energy.Nuclear energy, solar energy, wind energy tide and thermal energy are a few that come to mind.
it gives us energy beacause the energy come directly from the sun which comes towards the earth.
A toaster converts electrical energy into thermal energy. Some of that electrical energy may have come from a nuclear power plant.