Thermal Properties of Matter — Class 11 CBSE Physics revision notes
A 4-page visual revision sheet for Thermal Properties of Matter, written for Class 11 CBSE 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 scales
- Thermal expansion
- linear expansion
- area expansion
- volume expansion
- for the same material
- Anomalous expansion of water
- Heat capacity and specific heat
- Calorimetry
- heat exchanged
- principle of calorimetry, an isolated system
- Mixing hot and cold water
- Change of state
- Heating curve of a solid, start to finish
- solid
- melting
- liquid
- boiling
- vapour
- Latent heat
- heat for a change of state, no temperature change
- latent heat of fusion, ice at 0 degrees C
- latent heat of vaporisation, water at 100 degrees C
- Conduction
- Conduction, the numbers
- rate of heat flow, rod of length L, area A
- thermal resistance
- Convection and radiation
- Blackbody radiation
- Stefan-Boltzmann and Wien's law
- power radiated per unit area, blackbody
- net rate, a body at T in surroundings T_0
- Wien's displacement law
- Newton's law of cooling
- rate of cooling, small excess over surroundings
- Symbols
- Traps that cost marks
- Tricks that save time
How CapCompass uses this sheet
These notes are not a standalone PDF. CapCompass plans Physics chapter by chapter against your real exam dates and free hours, and when the plan reaches Thermal Properties of Matter the sheet opens inside the study block itself — at the page covering the sub-topic that block is on, with the timer still running. Revision arrives at the moment the plan says revise, instead of having to be gone looking for.