Thermal properties of matter

• Main Author: Khachan, Joe (Author)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: San Rafael [California] (40 Oak Drive, San Rafael, CA, 94903, USA) : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, [2018]
• Series: IOP (Series). Release 4.; IOP concise physics.
• Subjects: Thermodynamics.; Physics.; SCIENCE / Physics / General.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781681745855
• ISSN: 2053-2571
• DOI: 10.1088/978-1-6817-4585-5
• Physical Description: 1 online zdroj : ilustrace.

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Thermal properties of materials and temperature measurement
• 2.1. Temperature and heat
• 2.2. Thermal equilibrium
• 2.3. Absolute temperature scale
• 2.4. Thermal expansion
• 3. Heat transfer through conduction, convection, and radiation
• 3.1. Heat conduction
• 3.2. Convection
• 3.3. Radiation
• 4. Heat capacity, specific heat, and heat of transformation
• 4.1. Heat capacity and specific heat
• 4.2. Heats of fusion and vaporisation
• 4.3. Phase diagram description of water
• 4.4. Latent heat of fusion and vaporisation
• 5. First law of thermodynamics and its applications to thermal processes
• 5.1. The first law of thermodynamics
• 6. Pressure in terms of molecular motion
• 6.1. An ideal gas--a macroscopic approach
• 6.2. An ideal gas--a microscopic approach
• 7. Summary of equations.