Sunday, February 6, 2011

Temperature and Heat

HONORS PHYSICS
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Calculation of Tf various situations
Hot  Brass
Burning Calories Lab

Problem Set

Conservation of Energy
Temperature Scales
Derivation of Absolute Zero
Definitions:

  • Absolute Zero
  • Fahrenheit
  • Celsius
  • calorie
  • Calorie
  • Heat of fusion
  • Heat of vaporization
  • temperature
  • Specific Heat
Special Topics
  • Infrared 
  • Bose einstein condensates
  • Maxwells Ghosts
  • Boltzmans Distribution

5 comments:

  1. are we gonna be working in kelvin yall!?!?!? LOL!!

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  2. Well... As it goes you can use either Kelvin or Celsius... The reason is the temp changes in both sale are equal. Meaning...
    1K change = 1 degree Celsius change
    so which should you use? What ever the units given in the problem.

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  3. hey mr. crane, I just wanted to double check with you about the specific heat of water. I think you said it was 1, but I thought that it was 4.18 J/g*C, and the book says the same thing. I used 1 for the lab, but should I have used 4.18?

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  4. Oh thats easy one is in calories and the other is in Joules... so Just use the same for both.... Typically calories is reserved for water and food ideas...

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  5. also, I wasn't sure how much you wanted us to expand on our conclusions? I feel like I can conclude the lab in one sentence. I was going to combine Conclusion and Discussion into one section, if that's all right.

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