Hey everyone so here in this example question it says from the image provided below, determine which part of the cubes represent temperature and which part represents heat. So remember heat itself just represents the flow of thermal energy from an object that's hotter to an object that's colder.
If we take a look here we have these two cubes and we can see that we have a set of WAVY lines between them. These set of WAVY lines themselves represent our heat. Temperature itself is a result of the movement of molecules within a given structure. So if we take a look here, we can see that in the first cube, let's call it cube one, we can see that we have these little balls that are moving around. And in the second cube, cube two, we have the same balls, but they're not moving as vigorously.
We're going to say here temperature is really just the movement in each cube. So you could say that temperature is represented by the molecules moving in this cube as well as in this cube. Remember we said that heat is the flow of energy from a hotter optic to a colder object. The objects in the first cube, we can see them moving more vigorously, more more actively. Therefore they would generate higher temperature.
So we'd say that cube one would have a higher temperature. And the balls in the second cube are moving slower, so they have a lower temperature. This reinforces the idea that heat, which we said are these WAVY lines, would go from cube one to cube 2. They're going from a higher temperature to a lower temperature, so keep this in mind when learning the distinction between heat and temperature.