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1 The metal part gets hot enough to burn you! The cloth stays cool.
You park your car outside on a hot summer day. When you put on your seat belt, what do you feel? The metal part gets hot enough to burn you! The cloth stays cool.

2 Specific Heat Capacity
Textbook definition: The amount of energy needed to change the temp. of 1 kg of a substance by 1˚ C. In my own words: How easily something changes temperature. High specific heat = hard to change its temp. Low specific heat = easy to change its temp.

3 Which one has the highest specific heat capacity?
Substance Specific Heat Capacity (J/kg  °C) Lead 128 Gold 129 Silver 234 Metal of seat belt 500 Aluminum 899 Sand 800 Cloth of seat belt 1,340 Wood 1,760 Water 4,184

4 Example of specific heat capacity:
Why is it cooler at the beach in the summer? Hint: Which has the higher specific heat capacity: the water or the sand? Answer: Water has a high specific heat capacity, so the water stays cool longer than the land.

5 Heat Technology Refrigerators- Cooling Takes Energy! The refrigerator transfers thermal energy from inside the refrigerator to the condenser coils at the back. This is why the back of a refrigerator feels warm!

6 Moves thermal energy from inside the house to the outside
Heat Pumps Devices that move thermal energy from one location to another. Example: Air Conditioner Moves thermal energy from inside the house to the outside

7 Answer: Yes, so it takes energy to do it!
Wait? Doesn’t that go against the rule that heat always moves from hotter to colder? Answer: Yes, so it takes energy to do it! Air conditioner

8 Heat Engines – Machines that use heat to do work
Heat Engines – Machines that use heat to do work. They convert thermal energy into kinetic energy. Heat Engines Internal External

9 Internal Combustion Engine- Fuel burns inside the engine in chambers called cylinders.
Example: car engine

10 External Combustion Engine- Fuel is burned outside the engine.
Example: steam engine


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