What is the difference between heat and temperature?

Answer 1

Heat is an energy.

Temperature is what measures heat.

For instance, the temperature of an object is about 3 degrees Celsius while another object is about 100 degrees Celsius.

The object at 3 degrees Celsius is said to contain less heat energy than the other object at 100 degrees Celsius.

Answer 2

The difference between heat and temperature are as follows:

1. Heat is a form of energy transfer associated with the different motions of atoms, molecules, and other particles that comprise matter when it is hot and when it is cold.

2. Temperature is a physical property of a system that underlies the common notions of hot and cold; something that is hotter than the greater temperature.

Answer 3

Heat refers to the conduction, convection or radiation of fast moving or vibrating molecules. Temperature on the other hand is how high the level of heat matter contains.

Answer 4

Heat is the total amount of energy possessed by the molecules in a piece of matter. This energy is both kinetic energy and potential energy.

When heat, (i. e., energy), goes into a substance one of two things can happen:

1. The substance can experience a raise in temperature. That is, the heat can be used to speed up the molecules of the substance. Since Kelvin temperature is directly proportional to the average kinetic energy of molecules in a substance, an factor increase in temperature causes an equal factor increase in the average kinetic energy of the molecules. And if the kinetic energy of the molecules increase, the speed of the molecules will increase, although these increases are not directly proportional. The kinetic energy of a body is proportional to the square of the speed of the body.

2. The substance can change state. For example, if the substance is ice, it can melt into water. Perhaps surprisingly, this change does not cause a raise in temperature. The moment before melting the average kinetic energy of the ice molecules is the same as the average kinetic energy of the water molecules a moment after melting. Although heat is absorbed by this change of state, the absorbed energy is not used to speed up the molecules. The energy is used to change the bonding between the molecules. Changing the manner in which the molecules bond to one another constitutes a change in potential energy. Heat comes in and there is an increase in the potential energy of the molecules. Their kinetic energy remains unchanged.

So, when heat comes into a substance, energy comes into a substance. That energy can be used to increase the kinetic energy of the molecules, which would cause an increase in temperature. Or that heat could be used to increase the potential energy of the molecules causing a change in state that is not accompanied by an increase in temperature.

Temperature is not energy. It is, though, a number that relates to one type of energy possessed by the molecules of a substance. Temperature directly relates to the kinetic energy of the molecules. The molecules have another type of energy besides kinetic, however; they have potential energy, also. Temperature readings do not tell you anything directly about this potential energy.

Temperature can be measured in a variety of units. If you measure it in degrees Kelvin, then the temperature value is directly proportional to the average kinetic energy of the molecules in the substance. Notice we did not say that temperature is the kinetic energy. We said it is a number, if in degrees Kelvin, is proportional to the average kinetic energies of the molecules; that is, if you double the Kelvin temperature of a substance, you double the average kinetic energy of its molecules.

Answer 5

The spelling.

Actually, temperature is related to average kinetic energy of molecules and heat is total energy in a substance

Answer 6

heat is the amount of energy in a system. temperature is the measure of the molecular motion in a system.

Answer 7

temp can be -80 degrees or 100degrees
heat is a verb (an action word)
temperature is a measurement