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	[[File:Fire.jpg\|300px\|thumbnail\|Figure 1: Campfires emit radiant heat which is felt as sensible heat because it increases the temperature of your body.<ref>Wikimedia Commons [Online], Available: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fire_from_brazier.jpg</ref>]]		[[File:Fire.jpg\|300px\|thumbnail\|Figure 1: Campfires emit radiant heat which is felt as sensible heat because it increases the temperature of your body.<ref>Wikimedia Commons [Online], Available: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fire_from_brazier.jpg</ref>]]
	<onlyinclude>'''Sensible heat''' is literally the heat that can be felt. It is the energy moving from one system to another that changes the [[temperature]] rather than [[phase change\|changing its phase]]. For example, it warms [[water]] rather than melting [[ice]].</onlyinclude> In other words, it is the heat that can be felt standing near a fire, or standing outside on a [[~~sunny~~ day. Sensible heat is used in contrast to [[latent heat]] (the heat needed to change from one form of matter to another, which doesn't change temperature), as the two are essentially opposite.		<onlyinclude>'''Sensible heat''' is literally the heat that can be felt. It is the energy moving from one system to another that changes the [[temperature]] rather than [[phase change\|changing its phase]]. For example, it warms [[water]] rather than melting [[ice]].</onlyinclude> In other words, it is the heat that can be felt standing near a fire, or standing outside on a [[sun]]ny day. Sensible heat is used in contrast to [[latent heat]] (the heat needed to change from one form of matter to another, which doesn't change temperature), as the two are essentially opposite.

	For example, in a [[air conditioner\|cooling system]] condensation forms due to removal of latent heat, and the refrigerant (cooling liquid) changes temperature due to sensible heat. The sensible heat capacity then describes the capacity required to lower the temperature whereas latent [[heat capacity]] is the capacity to remove the moisture from the air.<ref>Space Air, ''What is the difference between sensible and latent heat?'' [Online], Available: https://www.spaceair.co.uk/faqs/what-is-the-difference-between-sensible-and-latent-heat</ref>		For example, in a [[air conditioner\|cooling system]] condensation forms due to removal of latent heat, and the refrigerant (cooling liquid) changes temperature due to sensible heat. The sensible heat capacity then describes the capacity required to lower the temperature whereas latent [[heat capacity]] is the capacity to remove the moisture from the air.<ref>Space Air, ''What is the difference between sensible and latent heat?'' [Online], Available: https://www.spaceair.co.uk/faqs/what-is-the-difference-between-sensible-and-latent-heat</ref>
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	[[File:Water_Phase_Change_Diagram.png\|frame\|Figure 2. Adding heat to water can either raise the temperature or change the phase.<Ref>Wikimedia Commons [Online], Available: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Water_Phase_Change_Diagram.png#/media/File:Water_Phase_Change_Diagram.png </ref> The heat that changes the temperature is sensible heat, the heat that changes the phase is latent heat.]]		[[File:Water_Phase_Change_Diagram.png\|frame\|Figure 2. Adding heat to water can either raise the temperature or change the phase.<Ref>Wikimedia Commons [Online], Available: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Water_Phase_Change_Diagram.png#/media/File:Water_Phase_Change_Diagram.png </ref> The heat that changes the temperature is sensible heat, the heat that changes the phase is latent heat.]]

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	[[File:Fire.jpg\|300px\|thumbnail\|Figure 1: Campfires emit radiant heat which is felt as sensible heat because it increases the temperature of your body.<ref>Wikimedia Commons [Online], Available: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fire_from_brazier.jpg</ref>]]		[[File:Fire.jpg\|300px\|thumbnail\|Figure 1: Campfires emit radiant heat which is felt as sensible heat because it increases the temperature of your body.<ref>Wikimedia Commons [Online], Available: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fire_from_brazier.jpg</ref>]]
	<onlyinclude>'''Sensible heat''' is the energy ~~transferred as~~ [[~~heat~~]] ~~that will~~ change ~~the~~ [[~~temperature~~]] ~~of a substance with no~~ [[~~phase change~~]].</onlyinclude> In other words, it is the heat that can be felt standing near a fire, or standing outside on a sunny day. Sensible heat is used in contrast to [[latent heat]] (the heat needed to change from one form of matter to another, which doesn't change temperature), as the two are essentially opposite.		<onlyinclude>'''Sensible heat''' is literally the heat that can be felt. It is the energy moving from one system to another that changes the [[temperature]] rather than [[phase change\|changing its phase]]. For example, it warms [[water]] rather than melting [[ice]].</onlyinclude> In other words, it is the heat that can be felt standing near a fire, or standing outside on a [[sunny day. Sensible heat is used in contrast to [[latent heat]] (the heat needed to change from one form of matter to another, which doesn't change temperature), as the two are essentially opposite.

	For example, in a [[air conditioner\|cooling system]] condensation forms due to removal of latent heat, and the refrigerant (cooling liquid) changes temperature due to sensible heat. The sensible heat capacity then describes the capacity required to lower the temperature whereas latent [[heat capacity]] is the capacity to remove the moisture from the air.<ref>Space Air, ''What is the difference between sensible and latent heat?'' [Online], Available: https://www.spaceair.co.uk/faqs/what-is-the-difference-between-sensible-and-latent-heat</ref>		For example, in a [[air conditioner\|cooling system]] condensation forms due to removal of latent heat, and the refrigerant (cooling liquid) changes temperature due to sensible heat. The sensible heat capacity then describes the capacity required to lower the temperature whereas latent [[heat capacity]] is the capacity to remove the moisture from the air.<ref>Space Air, ''What is the difference between sensible and latent heat?'' [Online], Available: https://www.spaceair.co.uk/faqs/what-is-the-difference-between-sensible-and-latent-heat</ref>

			In figure 2, very cold ice has heat added to it. The [[temperature]] goes up, so that's sensible heat, but once it starts melting, that heat is latent heat (and is represented by the flat parts of the line, during melting or evaporation).

			[[File:Water_Phase_Change_Diagram.png\|frame\|Figure 2. Adding heat to water can either raise the temperature or change the phase.<Ref>Wikimedia Commons [Online], Available: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Water_Phase_Change_Diagram.png#/media/File:Water_Phase_Change_Diagram.png </ref> The heat that changes the temperature is sensible heat, the heat that changes the phase is latent heat.]]

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<onlyinclude>'''Sensible heat''' is the energy transferred as [[heat]] that will change the [[temperature]] of a substance with no [[phase change]].</onlyinclude> In other words, it is the heat that can be felt standing near a fire, or standing outside on a sunny day. Sensible heat is used in contrast to [[latent heat]] (the heat needed to change from one form of matter to another, which doesn't change temperature), as the two are essentially opposite.

For example, in a [[air conditioner|cooling system]] condensation forms due to removal of latent heat, and the refrigerant (cooling liquid) changes temperature due to sensible heat. The sensible heat capacity then describes the capacity required to lower the temperature whereas latent [[heat capacity]] is the capacity to remove the moisture from the air.<ref>Space Air, ''What is the difference between sensible and latent heat?'' [Online], Available: https://www.spaceair.co.uk/faqs/what-is-the-difference-between-sensible-and-latent-heat</ref>

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