Energy Transferred by Heating
Energy and Thermal Physics

Energy and temperature

Physics Narrative Supporting Physics Teaching

The energy in the thermal store is related to the temperature

The energy in the thermal store is not the same as the temperature of an object. But the temperature of an object can determine the rate at which energy accumulates in a thermal store. This rate of accumulation is the power in the different pathways.

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Warming and cooling - Physics narraitve

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Energy and Thermal Physics Supporting Physics Teaching

First thoughts about temperature and energy

Here is a simple situation. Put a hot object, say a pasty, in an insulated picnic box, cut off from the outside so that it is...

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Friction
Forces and Motion Supporting Physics Teaching

Braking uses slip forces

To help children describe the world by: emphasising that slip forces result in warming recognising that mechanical braking...

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Convective Heating
Forces and Motion Supporting Physics Teaching

Hot rooms

The purpose of this demonstration is to show the build-up of convection currents of warm air in a room.

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Misconceptions
RESEARCH REVIEW Energy and Thermal Physics

Many students think that objects of different materials in the same room will have different temperatures

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RESEARCH REVIEW Energy and Thermal Physics

Many students make incorrect quantitative predictions about the temperature of a mixture of two samples of liquid at different initial temperatures, even when they can make correct qualitative predictions

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RESEARCH REVIEW Energy and Thermal Physics

Students use the term ‘temperature’ less frequently than ‘heat’ when talking about thermal phenomena

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