H T T E: EAT Ransfer and Hermal Quilibrium

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TOPIC: 6.3 HEAT TRANSFER AND THERMAL EQUILIBRIUM


ENDURING UNDERSTANDING:
ENE-2 Changes in a substance’s properties or change into a different substance requires an exchange of energy.
LEARNING OBJECTIVE:
ENE-2.C Explain the relationship between the transfer of thermal energy and molecular collisions.
ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE:
ENE-2.C.1 The particles in a warmer body have a greater average kinetic energy than those in a cooler body.
ENE-2.C.2 Collisions between particles in thermal contact can result in the transfer of energy. This process is called “heat
transfer,” “heat exchange,” or “transfer of energy as heat.”
ENE-2.C.3 Eventually, thermal equilibrium is reached as the particles continue to collide. At thermal equilibrium, the
average kinetic energy of both bodies is the same, and hence, their temperatures are the same.
EQUATION(S):
N/A

NOTES:
Remember back to unit 3.5 when we saw the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution curves for substances at different
temperatures. From the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution curve we can see that particles with a higher
temperature will have greater kinetic energy than those that are at a
lower temperature. Recall: temperature is a measure of the average
kinetic energy of the particles of the sample. Remember also that
kinetic energy is ½ mν2. (m = mass, ν = velocity)

When hotter particles and colder particles are in contact with one
another and they collide, energy is transferred between them. This is
sometimes called heat transfer or heat exchange or transfer of
energy as heat. This results in the hotter particles losing some energy
and the colder substance increases in temperature. Heat is always
transferred from the hotter substance to the colder one. If the two
substances result in the same temperature, we call that thermal
equilibrium. When two substances reach the same temperature, they
have the same average kinetic energy.
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I DO:
50.0 grams of Aluminum (specific heat capacity = 0.900 J/g °C) at 85.0 °C was placed into 100.0 grams of water
(specific heat capacity = 4.184 J/g °C) at 25.0 °C. What happens to the temperature, average kinetic energy and
average speed of the aluminum?
The temperature, average kinetic energy and the average speed of the aluminum atoms decrease as both
substances reach thermal equilibrium.
WE DO:
50.0 grams of Aluminum (specific heat capacity = 0.900 J/g °C) at 85.0 °C was placed into 100.0
grams of water (specific heat capacity = 4.184 J/g °C) at 25.0 °C. The final temperature of the two
substances was 30.8 °C.
What can be said of the temperature changes for each substance?

What is true of the amount of thermal energy exchanged?

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6.3
YOU DO:
1) 15.0 grams of calcium chloride, CaCl2, is dissolved into 100.0 mL of water at 22.5°C, the final
temperature of the solution was 32.2°C. After the dissolution took place, consider the water and what
had happened to:
a) The temperature?

b) The average kinetic energy?

c) The average speed?

d) Was the dissolution reaction endothermic or exothermic?

2) When 39.0 grams of copper metal at 92.5°C (molar mass = 63.546 g/mol) is dropped into 200. mL of
water (molar mass 18.02 g/mol) at 25.0°C, the two substances reach thermal equilibrium. Which
substance has:
a) Greater kinetic energy?

b) Particles with the greatest average speed?

c) Highest temperature?

3) One mole of neon gas at T1 is added to one mole of neon gas at T2 as shown in the Maxwell-Boltzmann
distribution. Will the final temperature, Tf, of the gases be

a) Tf < T1, T2?


b) T1 < Tf < T2?
c) T1,T2< Tf?
Explain/justify your selection.

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