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PHY 121 Thermal Physics 1

NCE1 levelSciences22 topics

PHY 121 covers 22 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. CONCEPTS OF HEAT AND TEMPERATURE
  2. Nature (properties) of Heat and Temperature
  3. Various measurements involving them with emphasis on constant pressure and Resistant
  4. THERMAL ENERGY DEVELOPMENT
  5. Quantity of heat and calorimetry including cooling corrections
  6. Change of state, molecular interpretations
  7. Gaseous process and laws;
  8. Definitions and measurements of latent heats
  9. Calculations involving quantity of heat and latent heat.
  10. HEAT TRANSFER
  11. Conduction, convection, radiation
  12. Black-body radiation
  13. Stefan’s, Planck’s and Wien’s laws
  14. Prevost’s theory of heat exchange
  15. Problems involving these.
  16. KINETIC THEORY
  17. Assumptions of the kinetic theory model of gases e.g. Brownian motion
  18. Ideal gas laws and equations
  19. Quantitative treatment of molecular speed and root mean square speed
  20. Differences between real and ideal gas
  21. Van der Waal’s equation for real gases
  22. Zeroth and First laws of thermodynamics

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CONCEPTS OF HEAT AND TEMPERATURE

Heat and temperature are related but different ideas in thermal physics. For exam success, you must know temperature as a measure connected with thermal state, heat as energy in transit due to temperature difference, and how these ideas explain thermal equilibrium, thermometer use, and everyday heating processes.

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