Concept — Quantity that measures thermal state and average kinetic energy.
Present in chapters
08b·09
Linked atoms
40 atoms linked.
06 Centre of mass
08b Thermal physics
- The three temperature scales
- Problem — Temperature and heat
- Temperature, thermometer and thermal equilibrium
09 Kinetic theory of gases
- Internal energy of an ideal gas
- Worked example — Helium in a braking truck
- The Celsius scale was back to front
- Problem — Cylinder that falls and stops
- Problem — Celsius–Kelvin conversion
- Problem — Expansion at constant pressure
- Problem — Internal energy of helium, monatomic and diatomic
- Problem — Internal energy of a monatomic gas
- Problem — Rubber and heat
- Problem — Maxwell–Boltzmann at two temperatures
- Problem — Tyre on the motorway
- Problem — Pressure and molecular collisions
- Problem — Ranking average kinetic energy
- Problem — Fermi estimate: sauna
- Problem — Temperature that doubles the pressure
- Problem — Critical temperature from Van der Waals
- Problem — Temperature from v_rms
- Problem — Escape temperature of hydrogen
- Problem — Root-mean-square velocity of nitrogen
- Problem — True or false on gas properties
- Root-mean-square velocity
10 Irreversible transformations and energy balance
- Aluminium block in nitrogen (thermal equilibrium)
- Thermal equilibrium: solid + gas
- Metal and wood to the touch
11 Entropy
- Heat from hot to cold: proof
- Entropy of a crystal as T→0
- Entropy of a thermostat
- Melting 1 kg of ice: ΔS
- Entropy is a state function
- Reading the ln W vs E graph
- T
- Equilibrium temperature from entropy
- ΔS of ice melting
- ΔS of a mixture at different temperatures