The cards Question How is the speed of a substance's particles linked to its temperature? Tap to flip Answer The faster its particles vibrate or move, the higher the substance's temperature. Question What does heating do to the particles of a substance? Tap to flip Answer It makes them move or vibrate more rapidly. Question What is thermal conduction? Tap to flip Answer The transfer of energy through a material by collisions between moving or vibrating particles. Question How is energy passed through a solid by conduction? Tap to flip Answer Vibrating particles collide with nearby particles, making those particles vibrate more. Question Why are metals good thermal conductors? Tap to flip Answer When heated, their free electrons move through them more quickly and transfer energy. Question What is a thermal conductor? Tap to flip Answer A substance that transfers energy by thermal conduction quickly. Question What is a thermal insulator? Tap to flip Answer A substance that transfers energy by thermal conduction slowly or not at all. Question Why can a thermal conductor feel cold to touch? Tap to flip Answer It transfers energy quickly away from its surface. Question Why can a thermal insulator feel warm to touch? Tap to flip Answer It does not transfer energy quickly from its surface. Question Objects have been left in a room for a long time. How do their temperatures compare? Tap to flip Answer They are all at the same temperature. Question In a fair test, which variable is the only one changed? Tap to flip Answer The independent variable. Question What are control variables? Tap to flip Answer Factors kept constant in an experiment so that the test is fair. Question What is the dependent variable in an experiment? Tap to flip Answer The variable that is measured or observed; it changes as a result of varying the independent variable. Question Why is a control experiment done? Tap to flip Answer To give a baseline set of results that other results can be compared with. Question When testing insulation, why is a lid put on a beaker? Tap to flip Answer It prevents energy being transferred by convection currents. Question Is a gas a good or a poor thermal conductor? Tap to flip Answer A very poor thermal conductor. Question Energy passing through an insulator should be described as what, rather than heat flowing? Tap to flip Answer Particle vibrations being passed on through the material. Question What is internal energy? Tap to flip Answer The sum of the kinetic energy and potential energy of the particles something is made of. Question Temperature is related to which energy of the individual particles? Tap to flip Answer Their kinetic energy. Question What is potential energy? Tap to flip Answer The energy an object has because of its position and the forces acting on it. Question What is specific heat capacity? Tap to flip Answer The change in internal energy when the temperature of 1 kg of the material changes by 1 °C. Question The larger a material's specific heat capacity, is more or less energy needed to raise its temperature by 1 °C? Tap to flip Answer More energy. Question As its temperature falls by 1 °C, does a material with a larger specific heat capacity do more or less heating? Tap to flip Answer More heating. Question How does the energy needed to raise a substance's temperature by a fixed amount depend on its mass? Tap to flip Answer It is proportional to the mass. Question How does the energy transferred to a substance by heating depend on its rise in temperature? Tap to flip Answer It is proportional to the increase in temperature. Question What equation links energy transferred, mass, specific heat capacity and temperature change? Tap to flip Answer ΔE = m c Δθ Question What is the unit of specific heat capacity? Tap to flip Answer Joules per kilogram per degree Celsius (J/kg °C). Question What does a joulemeter measure? Tap to flip Answer The energy transferred by an electric current. Question What is an immersion heater? Tap to flip Answer An electrical heating element that can be submerged in a liquid to heat it. Question What does the principle of conservation of energy state? Tap to flip Answer The total amount of energy is the same before and after any transfer. Question At equilibrium, how does the temperature of a metal block compare with the water bath it is in? Tap to flip Answer They are at the same temperature. Question What is a random error? Tap to flip Answer A chance difference between an observed value and the true value. Question Give one cause of random errors. Tap to flip Answer E.g. mistakes in taking readings, or taking a reading at the wrong time. Question What happens to the temperature of a melting solid as it is heated? Tap to flip Answer It does not change. Question What happens to the temperature of a boiling liquid as it is heated? Tap to flip Answer It does not change. Question What is boiling? Tap to flip Answer The change of state from a liquid to a gas; for pure substances it happens at a fixed temperature. Question What does energy transferred to a solid at its melting point allow its particles to do? Tap to flip Answer Move further apart. Question What does energy transferred to a liquid at its boiling point allow its particles to do? Tap to flip Answer Move fast enough to get even further apart. Question What is specific latent heat? Tap to flip Answer The change in energy when 1 kg of a substance changes state. Question How does the energy needed to melt a solid at its melting point depend on its mass? Tap to flip Answer It is proportional to the mass of the solid. Question What equation links energy, mass and specific latent heat? Tap to flip Answer E = m × L Question At 0 °C, can water be in the solid state, the liquid state or both? Tap to flip Answer Either or both: at 0 °C water can be solid, liquid, or both. Where this deck sits in the curriculum Curriculum National Curriculum for England Stage GCSE (Years 10–11) Course GCSE Physics Unit Energy of moving particles Exam boards AQA, Edexcel, OCR Tiers foundation and higher England's National Curriculum sets what is taught; the units and their order are Oak National Academy's. Flash Feed is not affiliated with Oak or any exam board.
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