Thermodynamics
Heat and temperature, the ideal gas law, work on P–V diagrams, the first law and the efficiency of heat engines.
Problems
- Heating a Copper Calorimeter
- Identical Rods
- Heat Given Off by the Ball
- Mixing Warm and Cool Water
- Half a Kilogram of Copper
- Heat for Warm Water
- Equal Amounts
- A Hotter Ball
- Two Different Samples
- A Much Better Conductor
- Specific Heat Ratio from a Graph
- Same Heat, Different Metal
- Temperature at the Joint
- Specific Heat of an Oil
- Equal Masses on the Graph
- A Lighter Sample A
- How Heavy Was the Ball?
- How Long Does the Heater Take?
- A Longer Aluminum Rod
- Metal into Water
- Doubling the Volume
- Volume after Heating and Squeezing
- Heating Along a Straight Line
- From 300 K to 400 K
- A Rising Bubble
- Heating a Sealed Can
- How Much Bigger?
- Temperature at the End of a Curve
- Temperature from the Combined Gas Law
- How Deep Was It?
- Pressure and Temperature at D
- Down a Sloping Line
- Warming a Balloon
- What Stays Inside
- Air Escaping from a Heated Flask
- The Hottest Point on the Line
- A Warm Tyre
- Seal It, Then Cool It
- Radius at the Surface
- Constant-Pressure Expansion
- Heat in an Isothermal Expansion
- Work from a Pressure–Temperature Graph
- A Smaller Temperature Rise
- What Stays Constant?
- Work Under a Sloped Line
- Which Path Is Isothermal?
- Work in a Constant-Pressure Heating
- Work in an Isothermal Expansion
- Work in Units of P₀V₀
- Heat for a Monatomic Gas
- Doubling the Volume Isothermally
- Expanding While Pressure Falls
- A Horizontal Line Instead
- Squeezing at Constant Temperature
- Heat at Constant Pressure
- Temperature from the Work Done
- Back the Other Way
- Net Heat over a Cycle
- Net Work Around the Cycle
- Net Work on the Gas
- Work During 1 → 2
- Running the Cycle Backwards
- Work Along the Top
- Net Work per Cycle
- Work During 3 → 1
- Heat Thrown Away
- Running It Backwards
- Internal Energy Along the Adiabat
- Work on the Gas Around a Cycle
- Efficiency of a Heat Engine
- Heat in the Constant-Pressure Step
- A Rectangular Cycle
- Work Along the Slanted Side
- Heat Released During the Rest of the Cycle
- Internal Energy Change at Constant Pressure
- Net Heat Absorbed
- Heat Released During W → X