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Is heat a force

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Anonymous

13y ago
Updated: 5/21/2024

The misconception that heat is a force is an understandable one. People often relate movement to forces and this somewhat true and hence it is an easy mistake to think heat is a force. It is also possible that this misconception is the result of the confusion between energy and forces which are totally separate, heat is a type of energy is you were wondering.

Heat is the vibration of particles i.e. the movement of particles.

However forces are not movements. Unbalanced forces cause an acceleration of particles, as in they gain or lose velocity (speed in a given direction).

Because forces and speeds are not the same; despite the former being capable of causing a change in the latter, heat is not a force.

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