why it is wrong to think heat as a form of stored energy?

Answer 1

Because "heat" - or the temperature of an object - is based upon the movement of the atoms of that object.

Heat can only be transferred by conduction, convection, or radiation from an area of higher temp to one of lower temp.

Answer 2

Heat is one form of energy.

All types of energy is stored in one way or other.

Even in the case of electro magnetic radiation like light, energy is stored in the fields or in the photons.

All moving objects posses kinetic energy. Kinetic energy is stored in the object.

The modern concept has extended to say that even the mass of an object which is at rest has a stored energy called its rest mass energy.

Temperature is different from heat. Temperature is an indication of the total kinetic energy of the molecules and is not the mesure of its potential energy.

It is wrong to think temperature as a form of energy.

The question might have been intended to ask the above.

Answer 3

Because physics teachers have gotten a bit strange lately. Engineers have no problem speaking about energy stored as heat, but apparently the concept conflicts with some definition that makes physicists happy.

It's really not a trivial matter, and they probably have good reasons for doing so, but it's been a fairly recent change. We ran into this when we published a paper on heat flow, and the journal "The Physics Teacher" griped that we shouldn't have used "heat" and "energy" interchangeably. Or something.

Answer 4

heat rises and slowly dissipates. Heat as a form of stored energy would be pressurised contained maybe unstable say a car radiator was not pressurised when the heat rises over 100 centigrade the coolant would boil off when contained with a pressure cap hoses and a leak free radiator it becomes pressurised meaning the heat can rise a couple of 100 centigrade without evapourating coolant. Turn the cap while pressuried and you might hurt yourself my example is kinda bad and could be wrong heat as a form of stored energy is molten core under the tectonics. a television stores energy but not for a long period of time

Answer 5

Nothing, you can think of it any way that you wish, however what if it were a form of released energy!

Heat a reactionary affect of energy release, possibly more likely as I see it.

Heat is similar to time as it is observed with respect to motion, and interaction, however unlike time, interaction must always be present for heat to be released.

In other words, a singular particle can traverse any distance over measured time with no interaction, however the distance traversed over measured time would show the progression of motion thus the fourth dimension X, Y, Z, & Time, however with no interaction it's temperature would remain at rest.

However possibly you are on to something here, with respect to universal entropy, as possibly there is some very small amount of heat from with in stored energy.

Wow, you are really making me think hard about this singular question which you posed.

Possibly universal entropy is only a reactionary affect of vacuum energy traversing Aether and is equal throughout our universe with regard given to universal expansion.

Although the vacuum energy then would be the interactive motion passing through the aether releasing the heat over measured time, as it is pulled by our expanding universe, the heat then would not be stored, in the sense that it is constantly releasing heat with no interaction, but heat would be released with respect to kinetic energy as vacuum acceleration passes through the aether.

Therefor it is my belief that energy can be stored in matter, however heat can only be released from energy with regard to motion and interaction.

I will say that thinking is never wrong, that is what your mind was designed for, and I encourage it greatly.

Thank You for the wonderful question!

Answer 6

Because heat, defined in thermodynamics, is an energy that is flowing from one body to the other. There is no such thing as a "stationary" heat, or a body does not posses "heat".

In a hot object, for example, heat flows from it and towards the environment. It is wrong to say that the object has "heat", because heat is what is flowing out of it, not what it has. The object rather has thermal energy, and in order to achieve equilibrium with the environment, heat must flow from the hot object to the cooler surroundings...

Answer 7

Heat is the opposite of "stored" energy, it is the most disordered form of energy. According to the law of entropy, all things fall from a more ordered to a less ordered state, a state of increased entropy. An example is when an object in motion loses speed due to friction; the directed energy of its motion is converted into the undirected energy of heat, which is the random motion of molecules. Similarly, when light is absorbed by a dark-colored surface, it is converted into heat - light is directed energy which tends to move with a constant speed and direction, heat is randomized, directionless motion.

Answer 8

Heat is a biproduct of energy,as is light. Energy is of two parts, heat and light. One would not consider heat as energy,any more then light as energy. 1+1=2 and never does 1=2 or 2=1

Answer 9

It is not wrong. Heat is stored energy. It's just not USEFUL energy as it is. Only when we can use heat to do work on an enclosed gas (like in a piston engine) does it become useful.

Answer 10

hafsa,

It isn't wrong to think of heat as stored energy (unless your teacher said so).

There are certain conventions in science and sometimes they don't make sense when viewed from some other point. If someone told you that heat isn't stored enery they might be talking from some scientific format that sees things differently than everyday people do.

Especially in engineering you'll find things that don't make sense except to engineers. They say that bumble bees couldn't fly if the rules of science were applied. But since they do, no one argues with them.

Answer 11

yahoo!!! is correct.

Energy transfer solely due to a temperature difference is called heat flow and energy transferred in this way is heat. Thus heat refers to ENERGY IN TRANSIT from a hotter body to a colder body and not the amount of energy in a system. This is just how heat is define.