School of Physics, University of Sydney

Thermal Physics Keyword Search

The resources of this kit may be accessed through a number of ways. You can choose to look at all the demonstrations by stepping through each one, or you may examine the resource questions and step through each of these.

Alternatively you may choose to select material from either the demonstrations or resource questions via a concept. The concepts (key words) below have been chosen to help you browse in this way.

Temperature
Heat
Convection
Conduction
Radiation
Change of state
Thermal expansion
Adiabatic expansion
Isothermal expansion
Convert heat to work (Engines, etc)
Work to heat
Carnot cycle
Gas model
Phase transformations
Specific heat
PVT models
Thermal equilibrium (zeroth law)
Kinetic theory
Internal energy
Maxwellian distribution
Entropy (2nd law)
Concept map

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This page last updated 13th June 1998 by Pal Fekete.

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