Thermal Energy

Presented by: BILLY KYRON A.

PAGDILAO
What is Thermal
Energy?

• Thermal energy refers to the energy contained within a

system that is responsible for its temperature. Heat is
the flow of thermal energy. A whole branch of physics,
thermodynamics, deals with how heat is transferred
between different systems and how work is done in the
process (see the 1ˢᵗ law of thermodynamics).
• Thermal energy is the energy possessed by an
object/system by virtue of its temperature. When there is
a temperature difference between two bodies, thermal
energy flows from a higher temperature body to a lower
temperature body. In thermodynamics, this flow of
thermal energy is referred to as heat.
 • Radiation heat transmission. In this first case, the
thermal energy moves through electromagnetic
waves, just as it happens with the energy of the
Sun. It is also what happens when we turn on the
heating: the air is radiated with heat and the
temperature rises.
Thermal • Heat transmission by conduction. This case
occurs when a hot body comes into direct physical
Energy contact with a colder one, causing heat to be
transmitted and temperatures equalize. This does
Transmission not happen if the initial temperature is the same.
• Heat transmission by convection. This is the
name given to the movement of hot particles in a
colder environment, such as the wind: the moving
air contains particles at a higher temperature that
make us perceive the whole as hot air.
WHY IS THERMAL
ENERGY IMPORTANT?
• Why Is Thermal Energy Important?
Thermal energy offers us another
source of power. Thermal energy is
used in thermal power plants. Thermal
energy can be efficiently stored and
used as a backup power source during
peak usage hours or seasonal weather
power use increases.
Examples of Thermal
Energy

1. Boil the water. As we said before, by

introducing heat from a flame to a
container of water, we can raise the
temperature by multiplying the thermal
energy of the system (its internal
energy) to force the water to a phase
change (evaporation). The same happens
with ice: if we remove it from the
freezer, the heat from the environment
will radiate towards the solid until it
becomes liquid water again.
• Chimneys. A fireplace is nothing more
than a place in which a constant burning
of organic matter is maintained so that
the heat energy produced by the fire
radiates to the joint rooms and keeps the
house warm
Homemade Thermos
• A thermos full of hot coffee, for example, is ideal for
observing the caloric energy that radiates (if we bring
our hand closer to it) and that which is conserved (if
we have a cup). This occurs because the material of
the thermos prevents or considerably reduces heat
radiation and preserves the temperature of the liquid.
Human Body

1. The human body. The chemical reactions

that take place within our body, including
our own breathing, generate an amount of
thermal energy that maintains our body
temperature around 37 ° C. That energy is
perceptible and transmittable, in fact the
coats work by preventing the escape of that
heat through the surface of the skin.
• Heaters. Useful to keep the water at an ideal
temperature, electric heaters operate based on a set of
metallic resistances that transform electrical energy into
heat energy, increasing the temperature of the water to
the proper point.
 • The amount of thermal energy in a system, as will be
supposed, it has directly to do with the temperature
exhibited by it. Thus, the more thermal energy (heat) we
introduce to a container with water, for example, the more
More About its temperature will rise, until it reaches that necessary for a
phase change: the water evaporates and goes from liquid to
Thermal gaseous.
• The thermal energy, also known as caloric
Energy energy or calorific, is one that manifests itself in the form
of heat. It is, however, a product of the movement or
vibration of the atoms, so it is a manifestation of the
internal energy of the system, which is nothing more than
the accumulated kinetic energy of the particles. For
instance: the chimneys, the Sun, the hot springs.
1. What is Thermal Energy?
2. Name the three thermal energy transmission
3. What do we mean by Heat transmission by conduction
4. ______ is the flow of thermal energy
5. What are the examples of thermal energy
6. Why is thermal energy important to us?
7. Thermal Energy is also called?
8. What are the purposes of thermal energy
9. It is the critical to life on Earth and is important for heating bodies of water?
10. What did you learn about my report?