HEAT
What is heat?
- Heat is a form of energy
- Causes a sensation to our human eyes
What is temperature?
- It is the degree of hotness or coldness
- It is measured by 3 main units
- It is measure by a thermometer
Those three units are Kelvin, Celcius, Farhanhite.
Thermometer
- Measures temperature
- There are 2 types of thermometer
Those 2 types of thermometer are:
Clinical thermometer:
- Used by doctors
- Has mercury in a tube
- Has kink (Kink helps in not letting the mercury fall down
- It is from 35 degree Celsius to 42 degree Celsius
- A person should have approximately 37 degree Celsius
Labortary thermometer:
- Used by scientists
- Has mercury in tube
- It is from -10 degree Celsius to -110 degree Celsius
- Doesn't have kink (So this is why scientists will hold it upside down to not let the mercury fall)



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