Thermal Properties of Matter — Class 11 Maharashtra HSC Physics revision notes
A 5-page visual revision sheet for Thermal Properties of Matter, written for Class 11 Maharashtra HSC Physics. Formulas, diagrams and the traps that cost marks, laid out to be read the night before rather than the term before. Free, and it opens inside CapCompass.
What this Thermal Properties of Matter sheet covers
- Temperature, heat, and thermal equilibrium
- Temperature scales
- the three scales together
- kelvin, fixed by the triple point of water
- Thermometers, by thermometric property
- Liquid-in-glass
- Constant-volume gas
- Resistance thermometer
- Thermocouple
- The gas laws
- Ideal gas equation
- Boyle's law
- Charles' law
- combined, n moles
- universal gas constant
- Gas vs vapour
- Pressure at the triple point from a linear scale
- Thermal expansion
- linear expansion
- area expansion
- volume expansion
- Relation between the three coefficients
- for the same material
- ratio
- Anomalous expansion of water
- Specific and molar heat capacity
- Heat equation and heat capacity
- heat exchanged
- heat capacity of a body, C = ms
- Calorimetry, method of mixtures
- heat lost by the hot sample A
- heat gained by calorimeter, stirrer and water
- Calorimetry with the calorimeter's own heat capacity
- Change of state
- Heating curve of ice, start to finish
- ice
- melting
- water
- boiling
- steam
- Latent heat
- heat for a change of state, no temperature change
- latent heat of fusion, water at 0 degrees C
- latent heat of vaporisation, water at 100 degrees C
- Conduction
- Thermal conductivity and resistance
- rate of heat flow, rod length x, area A
- thermal resistance
- Convection and radiation
- Newton's law of cooling
- rate of cooling, small excess over surroundings
- Symbols
- Traps that cost marks
- Tricks that save time
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