Heat, Temperature and Thermal Energy by Mesa

    

Heat, temperature, and thermal energy all involve the movement of particles in an object. Thermal energy is the overall energy of the individual particles that an object has. If two objects are the exact same except one is twice as big as the other, then the larger object will have twice as much thermal energy as the smaller object. Temperature, which might seem the same as thermal energy, is much more simple than thermal energy as it calculates itself by the overall average of the kinetic energy in the object’s particles. Using the same example as before, the larger and smaller object would have the same temperature even though there is a size difference.

   Heat is related to thermal energy in that it is just the transfer of thermal energy from a hotter object to a colder object. Imagine your finger is 90 degrees F. and it touches a 60 degrees F. floor. Your finger’s thermal energy would then transfer to the floor until you finger and the floor are the same temperature. I personally think that thermal energy is the most interesting thing in this topic as it is involved in basically every other energy related thing in this topic. I also think that the equation used to find the change of thermal energy in an object is neat because of how complicated and hard it is to figure out. (This is true as I’m one of those weird kids who likes the equations used to find stuff out.)

   Did you know that the study of heat is called Thermodynamics and the study of any other type of energy including thermal? Also an object becomes hot if the particles in it move faster creating kinetic energy and an object becomes colder if the particles move slower. Another fact is that if an object doesn’t produce it’s own thermal energy, then it adjusts to have the same thermal energy as the air or objects around it. Here’s a little random question, do humans produce their own heat, and if they do, then what would happen to us if we didn’t produce our own heat?