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• Heat — In physics, heat, symbolized by Q , is energy transferred from one body or system to another due to a difference in temperature. [cite book|author= Daintith, John |title=Oxford Dictionary of Physics|publisher=Oxford University… …   Wikipedia

• heat — heatable, adj. heatful, adj. heatless, adj. heatlike, adj. /heet/, n. 1. the state of a body perceived as having or generating a relatively high degree of warmth. 2. the condition or quality of being hot: the heat of an oven. 3. the degree of… …   Universalium

• Heat pump — A heat pump is a machine or device that moves heat from one location (the source ) to another location (the sink or heat sink ), using work. Most heat pump technology moves heat from a low temperature heat source to a higher temperature heat sink …   Wikipedia

• Timeline of heat engine technology — Heat engines have been known since antiquity but were only made into useful devices at the time of the industrial revolution in the eighteenth century. They continue to be developed today.In engineering and thermodynamics, a heat engine performs… …   Wikipedia

• Theory of heat — In the history of science, the theory of heat or mechanical theory of heat was a theory, introduced predominantly in 1824 by the French physicist Sadi Carnot, that heat and mechanical work are equivalent.[1] It is related to the mechanical… …   Wikipedia

• History of heat — In the history of science, the history of heat traces its origins to the first hominids to make fire and to speculate on its operation and meaning to modern day particle physicists who study the sub atomic nature of heat. In short, the phenomenon …   Wikipedia

• John Leslie (physicist) — Infobox Scientist name = John Leslie box width = image width =150px caption = John Leslie birth date = April 10, 1766 birth place = death date = November 3, 1832 death place = residence = citizenship = nationality = Scottish ethnicity = field =… …   Wikipedia

• Specific heat capacity — Specific heat capacity, also known simply as specific heat, is the measure of the heat energy required to increase the temperature of a unit quantity of a substance by a certain temperature interval. The term originated primarily through the work …   Wikipedia

• William Ritchie (physicist) — William Ritchie (1790 1837) was a physicist who was notable for writing the book Principles of the Differential and Integral Calculus (1836). He wrote several papers on heat, electricity, and elasticity. He was regarded as a good experimenter. He …   Wikipedia

• Nernst heat theorem — /nɜnst/ (say nernst) noun Physics a theorem which states that the change in entropy of reactions in pure crystalline solids will approach zero as the temperature at which they occur approaches zero; a development of the third law of… …  

• FORBES, JAMES DAVID —    physicist, born at Edinburgh, the grandson of Sir William, and the son of the first lady love of Sir Walter Scott, and very like her; was called to the bar in 1830; physical science, however, was his ruling passion, and in 1833 he became… …   The Nuttall Encyclopaedia