what is the difference between heat and thermal energy?

Question

please anwer this question

Answer 1

Simply put, heat is the flow of thermal energy.

Temperature represents average thermal energy. Heat goes from objects with high temperature to low temperature, not high thermal energy to low thermal energy.

For example, a massive glacier will have more total thermal energy than a small hot nail (simply because it has more molecules); however, its temperature is lower because it has less average thermal energy. Therefore, energy will be transfered from the nail to the glacier...

Thermal energy is the total internal energy of the system. This has to do with the kinetic and potential energies of the molecules, i.e. how fast the molecules are vibrating and their chemical bonds.

Answer 2

Heat Thermal Energy

Answer 3

Thermal Energy is the energy contained in a system at a specific temperature. It's the Average Kinetic Energy of the Molecules in the system.
Heat Energy is very similar but, when you add heat energy the Temperature of the system MAY Increase OR the STATE or Phase of the system MAY change,
So to bring water to the boil for example you add heat energy to first increase its Temperature which can be measured by a thermometer (Sensible Heat) and, the Thermal Energy is increased.
However, when the water is boiling and vaporising, there is NO change in temperature but, heat energy is still being added and the Thermal Energy continues to increase (Latent (hidden) Heat).
2 containers, 1 with 100g of water and 1 with 1,000g of water and ,both at 50°C.
To cool the 100g to 49°C we must remove 100g x 1cal/g/°C x 1°C = 100 calories of heat.
To cool the 1,000g to 49°C we must remove 1,000g x 1cal/g/°C x 1°C = 1,000cal. Proving that, at the SAME Temperature, the 1,000g contained much more Thermal Energy.

Answer 4

Heat= the movement of thermal energy from higher to lower temperatures.
Thermal energy= total amount of kinetic and potential of the particles.

Answer 5

Thermal energy is a term often confused with that of heat. Loosely speaking, when heat is added to a thermodynamic system its thermal energy increases and when heat is withdrawn its thermal energy decreases. In this point of view, objects that are hot are referred to as being in possession of a large amount of thermal energy, whereas cold objects possess little thermal energy. Thermal energy then is often mistakenly defined as being synonym for the word heat. This, however, is not the case: an object cannot possess heat, but only energy. The term thermal energy when used in conversation is often not used in a strictly correct sense, but is more likely to be only used as a descriptive word. In physics and thermodynamics, the words “heat”, “internal energy”, “work”, "enthalpy" (heat content), "entropy", "external forces", etc., which can be defined exactly, i.e. without recourse to internal atomic motions and vibrations, tend to be preferred and used more often than the term thermal energy, which is difficult to define.

Answer 6

thermal energy is the energy contained within the system that is energy of moving or vibrating molecules.
But heat is transferred from from one system to another or system to its surroundings.
So you can t say that system contains heat or thermal energy is being transferred from one system to another..
hope that clarifies the question

Answer 7

What Is Thermal

Answer 8

RW pretty much covered it.
I would point out though that thermal energy can
be transferred by radiation which doesn't have a
real quality one could call temperature.

Answer 9

Thermal Heat Energy

Answer 10

Yikes, according to my microsoft works dictionary thermal energy is heat.