Is heat matter? Explain.?

Question

Is heat matter? Explain.?

Answer 1

Not quite, heat is thermal energy in transit.  Matter is another form of energy.

Heat can become matter and vice-versa.  So they are the same thing in a way (both forms of energy), but not quite.  You use the two terms in different situations.

Answer 2

No, heat is a form of energy, energy has no mass, therefore it is not matter.

Answer 3

No, because heat is the movement of matter. So heat is caused by matter in movement, but is not the matter itself.

Answer 4

Heat may be defined as energy in transit from a high temperature object to a lower temperature object. An object does not possess "heat"; the appropriate term for the microscopic energy in an object is internal energy. The internal energy may be increased by transferring energy to the object from a higher temperature (hotter) object - this is properly called heating.

So the answer is NO.

More specifically, to describe the energy that a high temperature object has, it is not a correct use of the word heat to say that the object "possesses heat" - it is better to say that it possesses internal energy as a result of its molecular motion. The word heat is better reserved to describe the process of transfer of energy from a high temperature object to a lower temperature one. Surely you can take an object at low internal energy and raise it to higher internal energy by heating it. But you can also increase its internal energy by doing work on it, and since the internal energy of a high temperature object resides in random motion of the molecules, you can't tell which mechanism was used to give it that energy.

Answer 5

yes because everything is made up of matter.example:light, darkness,air,heat.etc.