Heat Kinetic Theory, and Thermodynamics (7 days)

  1. Temperature and Heat (Chapter 12)
    1. Students should understand the "mechanical equivalent of heat" so they can calculate how much a substance will be heated by the performance of a specified quantity of mechanical work. (Chapter 12.7)
    2. Students should understand the concepts of specific heat, heat of fusion, and heat of vaporization so they can:
      1. Identify, given a graph relating the quantity of heat added to a substance and its temperature, the melting point and boiling point and determine the heats of fusion and vaporization and the specific heat of each phase. (Chapter 12.8)
      2. Determine how much heat must be added to a sample of a substance to raise its temperature from one specified value to another, or to cause it to melt or vaporize.
    1. Students should understand heat transfer and thermal expansion so they can:
      1. Determine the final temperature achieved when substances, all at different temperatures, are mixed and allowed to come to thermal equilibrium. (Chapter 12.7 &12.8)
      2. Students should understand how the rate of heat conduction through a slab of material depends on the thickness and area of the slab and on the temperature difference between the two faces of the slab, so they can calculate how the heat flow changes if one or more of these factors is changed. (Chapter 13.2)
      3. Analyze qualitatively what happens to the size and shape of a body when it is heated. (Chapter 12.4 & 12.5)
Made 25 July 2006
by Lori Andersen.
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