Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Region V
SCHOOLS Division of Camarines Sur
SCIENCE 9
Name: ___________________________________________ Quarter : 4 Week : 4 & 5
Grade Level/Section: _____________________________ Date : ______________________

HEAT ENGINES

I. Introductory Concept

The transfer of energy in the form of heat is associated with changes in the temperature
or changes in the state of a sample of matter.
Energy transfer in the form of heat can result in the performance of work upon the system
or the surroundings. Devices that utilize heat to do work are often referred to as heat engines.
In general, an engine is a device that does work. A heat engine is a device that uses heat
transfer as the source of energy for doing work.
Heat engines operate between reservoirs of different temperatures. A reservoir is
anybody that can give off or accept heat without a significant change in its internal energy
or temperature. Every heat engine has working substances in them. The working substance is
a quantity of matter that undergoes inflow and outflow of heat, compression, expansion and
sometimes change in phase.

Source: Module 14 Thermodynamics.pdf

A refrigerator is a heat engine in which work is done on a refrigerant substance in order

to collect energy from a cold region and exhaust it in a higher temperature region, thereby
cooling the cold region further. A refrigerator, working in a process of transporting heat from
cold to hot reservoir is indeed a reversed heat engine!
The working substance in a refrigerator is usually freon, a gas that easily liquefies. How
does the system work? It is based on the principle that an expanding gas tends to cool.
 Source: Module 14 Thermodynamics.pdf

II. Skills/Competency
Construct a model to demonstrate that heat can do work. (S9ES-e-42)
Explain how heat transfer and energy transformation makes heat engines work. (S9ES-g-45)

III. Activities
Activity 1. Does Heat Work?
Direction: Indicate if heat does work in each picture. Write W if work is done and NW if no
work is done.

1. _______ 4. _______
Hot Air Cooking
Balloon

Source:www.bing.com Source: Heat Transfer - Lesson – Teach Engineering

2. ________ 5. ________
Car Engine Digestion
of food

Source: www.bing.com Source: Food Digestion Process Complete - Bing images

3. ________
Popcorn
popping

Source: popcorn.gif (286×278) (d32ogoqmya1dw8.cloudfront.net)

Activity 2. A Closer Look at a Refrigerator

Direction: Using the illustration, connect the locations where the different processes in a
refrigerator take place using a straight line. The first step is already connected.
 REFRIGERATOR
STEPS ON HOW REFRIGERATOR WORKS

Source: Module 14 Thermodynamics.pdf

Direction: Write T if the statement is true and F if the statement is false.

____ 1. A refrigerator needs external energy to transport heat from the cold reservoir to the
hot reservoir.
____ 2. A heat engine is an object that can give off or accept heat without a significant
change in its temperature or internal energy.
____ 3. The natural direction of heat flow is from object of higher temperature to object of
lower temperature.
____ 4. A heat engine takes in heat from the low temperature reservoir, does work using this
energy, and expels the rest in the heat sink at the high-temperature reservoir.
____ 5. It is impossible to construct an engine operating in cycle that converts heat totally into
mechanical energy to do an equivalent amount of work.

IV. References

Grade 9 Science Learners Manual

EASE Module pp. 16-22
Prototype and Contextualized Daily Lesson Plans in Science 9 (Q4)

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