This quiz assesses course standards 1–5. If you can do the tasks described below, you will satisfy the standards on the exam.
Define the Celsius and Fahrenheit temperature scales. Identify the key differences between them.
Define the kelvin temperature scale.
State the relationship between kelvin and Celsius temperature scales. Given a temperature in one scale, express the same temperature in the other scale.
Given a temperature difference or temperature change in the Celsius or kelvin scale, express in the other scale.
State the relationship between temperature and thermal equilbrium.
Given two, find the third: initial temperature, final temperature, temperature change.
Given two, find the third: initial length, final length, length change.
Given two, find the third: initial volume, final volume, volume change.
Given two, find the third: initial length, length change, fractional length change.
Given two, find the third: initial volume, volume change, fractional volume change.
Define the thermal expansion coefficients denoted α and β, and state and explain the relationship between them.
Given two, find the third: coefficient of thermal expansion, temperature change, fractional length or volume change.
Describe and explain the unusual thermal expansion of liquid water.
Define heat.
Identify the SI unit of heat.
Define non-SI units of heat: calorie, Calorie, BTU. Convert between these and SI units.
Identify the requirement for spontaneous heat flow.
Identify the direction of spontaneous heat flow.
Describe and explain the role of specific heat capacity.
Given three, find the fourth: heat input, mass, specific heat capacity, temperature change.
Qualitatively describe the response of temperature to a heat input in the presence and in the absence of a phase change.
For a substance at its phase change temperature, given two, find the third: heat input, latent heat, mass of material changing phase.
Define and explain the mechanisms of heat transfer by conduction, convection, and radiation.
Identify the conditions under which conduction, convection, and radiation operate.
Identify the mechanism by which “heat rises,” and explain why “heat rises,” specifically for that mechanism.
State Fourier’s law of heat conduction, and identify the quantities contained within its formula (including the negative sign).
Define temperature gradient.
for a heat conduction scenario, given three, find the fourth: heat current, thermal conductivity, cross-sectional area, temperature gradient.
Define mole and Avogadro’s number, and state their relationship.
Identify the characteristics of ideal gas molecules.
Given three of the following characteristics of a sample of an ideal gas, find the fourth: pressure, volume, number of moles, temperature.
Relate the temperature of an ideal gas to the average translational kinetic energy of its molecules.
Identify and explain the relationship between the quantities designated n and N.
Identify and explain the relationship between the quantities designated kB and R.
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