Chapter 13
Thermodynamic Systems
Choose the system, identify its state and track energy crossing its boundary before applying the first law.
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Internal energy and thermal equilibrium
Choose a system and connect its macroscopic state to microscopic energy, temperature and the zeroth law.
Heating, work and the first law
Derive gas displacement work and use one explicit sign convention to account for internal-energy changes.
Temperature change and calorimetry
Use specific heat capacity while separating sample energy from apparatus warming and losses.
Phase change and latent heat
Choose warming or phase-change stages and interpret latent-heat measurements and energy accounts.