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Energy
Capacity to do work
1st law of thermodynamics
Energy cannot be created or destroyed
specific heat capacity
the energy required to raise the temperature of one gram of a substance by one degree
Celsius
latent heat
the energy absorbed or released during a change in state
metabolic rate
the rate at which the body uses energy
Kleiber's Law
As log of organism mass increases, log of metabolic rate also increases in a linear scale
Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution
Shows the spread of energies that molecules of gas or liquid have at a particular
temperature
Temperature
Measure of average energy in a system. Not form of energy
intensive property