HEat Vs Temperature
The common words, “heat” and “temperature” are often interchangeably used in our everyday language. ... You would assume that since the individual felt hot, or in this case felt a high amount of heat outside, then the temperature outside would also be high. This is the practical view-point where the relationship between heat and temperature is that when you add heat to something, you raise its temperature, and when you remove heat from something, its temperature goes down. Even though the concepts behind the words “heat” and “temperature” are related, they do not refer to the same thing. ... The concepts of heat and temperature both deal with these tiny molecules. In order to differentiate between heat and temperature we must define what they are and then make a distinction between the two. Heat is a form of energy. ... For a brief period of time the energy being transfer, from a molecule that has a greater amount of kinetic energy to a molecule with a lesser amount of kinetic energy, exists between the two molecules and is known as heat.