1.S: The Basics (Summary)
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Learning Objectives
Upon mastering the material covered in this chapter, one should be able to do the following:
- Write down expressions from which work of motion and of expansion can be calculated.
- Express the “Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics.
- Convert between temperatures on several scales that are commonly used.
- Define boundaries that differentiate between a system and its surroundings.
- Perform calculations involving Specific Heat and understand how the specific heat governs temperature changes for the flow of a given amount of energy.
Vocabulary and Concepts
- calorie (cal)
- Calorie (Cal)
- closed system
- energy
- equation of state
- extensive
- heterogeneous
- homogeneous
- Ideal Gas Law
- ideal gas law constant
- intensive
- isolated system
- joule
- kinetic energy
- limiting ideal behavior
- open system
- platinum resistance thermometer
- potential energy
- pressure
- reversible expansion
- specific heat
- state variables
- surroundings
- system
- temperature
- universe
- work
References
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- Mangum, B. W., & Furukawa, G. T. (1990). Guidelines for Realizing the International Practical Temperature Scale of 1990 (ITS-90), NIST Technical Note 1265. Gaithersberg, MD: National Institutes of Standards and Technology.
- Strouse, G. F. (2008, January). Standard Platinum Resistance Thermometer Calibrations from the Ar TP to the Ag FP. National Institute of Standards and Technology Special Publication 250-81.