You take a metal bowl of water from the refrigerator and set it on the counter....?

Question

After a long time what happens to the temperature of the water and the metal bowl? Which absorbs more heat from the room, the water or the bowl? Why? What is the difference between heat and temperature?

Answer 1

Heat and temperature mean about the same thing in the English language, but in science heat means the transfer of internal energy. As in something warm can "heat" something cool but it doesn't "have" "heat".

After a long time the bowl and water increase in temperature because the surrounding environment is heating them. The water will have the greatest change in internal energy even if both the bowl and water are the same temperature because water has a hight heat capacity. Heat capacity is the amount of energy a substance requires to go up one degree. Since the metal bowl needs very little energy to rise in temperature it is holding less energy than the water which requires a lot of energy to reach the same temperature.

Answer 2

depends on the type of metal the bowl is made of.

if it was copper it would absorb heat faster

but if it was tempered steel it would do it much slower

and the waters temp would follow behind a few minutes.

Answer 3

After a long time the temperature of the water and the temperature of the bowl are the same as the temperature of the room. This is due to heat transfer.

The water absorbs more heat due to the fact that the water has a greater mass than the bowl.

The bowl absorbs and disperses it faster due to the fact that the metal is a better heat conductor than air and water.

Heat is energy.

Temperature is the MEASURE of heat.