• Question: Is heat related to kinetic energy?

    Asked by wizzyg12 to Sam, Rob on 25 Jun 2013.
    • Photo: Sam Geen

      Sam Geen answered on 25 Jun 2013:


      Yeah. Heat is the kinetic energy in random motions of particles. Normally in physics you distinguish between the heat, which is the energy from random motions of particles, and bulk kinetic energy, which is the energy from the particles moving in roughly the same direction, like water in a river.

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