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Which has more thermal energy a cup of hot tea or a pitcher of juice?
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First note that "thermal energy" is a term that became obsolete about 200 years ago. The correct term is "Internal Energy". "Thermal energy" was a term that was in use when people thought of energy as being some kind of fluid called "caloric" that was transferred between things at different temperatures.
Because the pitcher of juice almost certainly has much more mass than a cup of some hot beverage, we would expect it to have more internal energy.
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∙ 6y ago
Wiki User
∙ 6y agoFirst we should clear up one misconception:
In thermodynamics, "heat" is energy being transferred from one thing to another. Energy contained in an object is not heat, it is "internal energy". If it comes into contact with something that has a different temperature then the internal energy of the warmer object will decrease and the internal energy of the colder object will increase. The energy moves between them as heat.
By analogy - rain is how water is moved from the clouds to the ground. Before it starts falling it is still a cloud, not rain. When it comes to rest on the ground it is no longer rain- rather it is a puddle or a pond or something like that.
With that said ... The Snowman has more total internal energy!
A cup of tea would probably be around 0.2 litres. For a 0.2 liter cup of tea, to raise its temperature from absolute 0 (-273 Celsius) to + 60 Celsius would take 4.19 x 0.2 x 333 = 279 kJ
By the same token a 100 liter snowman (100 litres is a reasonable estimate for the volume of a snowman) contains 4.19 x 100 x 273 = 114,387 kJ energy.
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∙ 8y agoThe answer to this will depend on the size of the snowman and the size of the cup of hot tea. If they are the same size, the cup of hot tea will have more heat energy.
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