Thermal Energy Transfer and Equilibrium
Describe the transfer of energy between two systems in thermal contact due to temperature differences of those two systems.
- Two systems are in thermal contact if the systems may transfer energy by thermal processes.
- Heating is the transfer of energy into a system by thermal processes.
- Cooling is the transfer of energy out of a system by thermal processes.
- The thermal processes by which energy may be transferred between systems at different temperatures are conduction, convection, and radiation.
- Energy is transferred through thermal processes spontaneously from a higher-temperature system to a lower-temperature system.
- In collisions between atoms from different systems, energy is most likely to be transferred from higher-energy atoms to lower-energy atoms.
- After many collisions of atoms from different systems, the most probable state is one in which both systems have the same temperature.
- Thermal equilibrium results when no net energy is transferred by thermal processes between two systems in thermal contact with each other.
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