Chapter 18
Temperature and Heat
![Temperature and Thermal Equilibrium](https://jovecdn2.ccindex.cn/files/media/science-education/science-education-thumbs/13654.jpg)
Heat and temperature are essential concepts for everyone every day. The study of heat and temperature is part of an area of physics known as…
![Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics](https://jovecdn2.ccindex.cn/files/media/science-education/science-education-thumbs/13655.jpg)
Experimentally, if object A is in equilibrium with object B, and object B is in equilibrium with object C, then object A is in equilibrium with…
![Gas Thermometers and the Kelvin Scale](https://jovecdn2.ccindex.cn/files/media/science-education/science-education-thumbs/13657.jpg)
The definition of temperature in terms of molecular motion suggests that there should be a lowest possible temperature, where the average kinetic…
![Thermal Expansion](https://jovecdn2.ccindex.cn/files/media/science-education/science-education-thumbs/13658.jpg)
The expansion of alcohol in a thermometer is one of many commonly encountered examples of thermal expansion, which is the change in size or volume of…
![Thermal expansion and Thermal stress: Problem Solving](https://jovecdn2.ccindex.cn/files/media/science-education/science-education-thumbs/14164.jpg)
San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge is exposed to temperatures ranging from -15 °C to 40 °C. At its coldest, the main span of the bridge…
![Heat Flow and Specific Heat](https://jovecdn2.ccindex.cn/files/media/science-education/science-education-thumbs/13660.jpg)
Heat is a type of energy transfer that is caused by a temperature difference, and it can change the temperature of an object. Since heat is a form of…
![Calorimetry](https://jovecdn2.ccindex.cn/files/media/science-education/science-education-thumbs/13662.jpg)
When objects at different temperatures are placed in contact with each other but isolated from everything else, they attain thermal equilibrium. A…
![Mechanisms of Heat Transfer I](https://jovecdn2.ccindex.cn/files/media/science-education/science-education-thumbs/13663.jpg)
Just as interesting as the effects of heat transfer on a system are the methods by which the heat transfer occur. Whenever there is a temperature…
![Conduction, Convection and Radiation: Problem Solving](https://jovecdn2.ccindex.cn/files/media/science-education/science-education-thumbs/14166.jpg)
There are three methods by which heat transfer can take place: conduction, convection, and radiation. Each method has unique and interesting…
![Radiation: Applications](https://jovecdn2.ccindex.cn/files/media/science-education/science-education-thumbs/13665.jpg)
The average temperature of Earth is the subject of much current discussion. Earth is in radiative contact with both the Sun and dark space; it…
![Fabrication and Testing of Photonic Thermometers](https://jovecdn2.ccindex.cn/files/thumbs/55807_t.png)
In recent years, a push for developing novel silicon photonic devices for telecommunications has generated a vast knowledge base that is now being…
![A Method for Studying the Temperature Dependence of Dynamic Fracture and Fragmentation](https://jovecdn2.ccindex.cn/files/thumbs/52463_t.png)
The dynamic fracture of a body is a late-stage phenomenon typically studied under simplified conditions, in which a sample is deformed under uniform…
![Ice Generation and the Heat and Mass Transfer Phenomena of Introducing Water to a Cold Bath of Brine](https://jovecdn2.ccindex.cn/files/thumbs/55014_t.png)
Ice Generation and the Heat and Mass Transfer Phenomena of Introducing Water to a Cold Bath of Brine
We demonstrate a method for the study of the heat and mass transfer and of the freezing phenomena in a subcooled brine environment. Our experiment…