All the exercises of the chapter, worked step by step, in order of appearance in the book: first the worked examples in the text, then the end-of-chapter problems (numerical, conceptual, true/false, ranking, graphical, Fermi estimates, challenges).
Worked examples in the text
End-of-chapter problems
- Work in isobaric expansion
- True or false on the first law and expansion
- Heat at constant volume (monatomic gas)
- Heat at constant pressure (comparison)
- Paths in the P-V plane (heating processes)
- Aluminium block in nitrogen (thermal equilibrium)
- Same temperature, different heat
- Lifting a vertical piston
- Estimate: work of a hot air bubble
- Ranking: heat absorbed in four processes
- The bicycle pump
- The fridge in the room
- Heating water
- Mixing two batches of water
- Evaporation of water
- Metal and wood to the touch
- Ranking: heat in isobaric and isochoric processes
- True or false on thermodynamic processes
- Estimate: boiling time
- T(t) graph with phases
- Heat as a substance?
- Isotherm and adiabat
- Work in a cycle
- Isochore and isobar
- Ranking: work in expansions
- Ranking: specific heats
- Heat in an isotherm
- Adiabatic compression
- Calorimetry with phase changes
- Work in an isobaric process
- Efficiency of a kettle
- Inverse: from L to the volume ratio
- Inverse: Q in an isobaric process
- Identifying the gas
- Sci-fi physics: without the first law
- Sci-fi physics: gamma equal to 2
- Summary: four-stage cycle
- Different paths, same state
- Compressed air heats up
- Morning fog
- Two paths in the p-V plane
- Fermi estimate: air in a room
- Fermi estimate: ice in a drink
- Challenge: mercury barometer
- Challenge: fast adiabatic pump