Thermal Energy, Heat and Temperature - More Grades 9-12 Science on the Learning Videos Channel

What is the difference between heat, thermal energy and temperature? This program explores the differences between each and explains that temperature indicates how hot or cold a substance is, heat is the transfer of thermal energy from one substance to another and thermal energy relates to the total kinetic energy in a substance. Students will experience examples of each.
Thermal energy refers to several distinct thermodynamic quantities, such as the internal energy of a system; heat or sensible heat, which are defined as types of energy transfer (as is work); or for the characteristic energy of a degree of freedom in a thermal system {\displaystyle kT}kT, where {\displaystyle T}T is temperature and {\displaystyle k}k is the Boltzmann constant.