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The Pressure Cooker (Physics of Technology Series)

A module on the thermal properties of matter. Provides broad coverage of thermodynamics, including temperature scales, thermometry (calibration and use of thermistor), pressure, thermal equilibrium, heat, heat capacity, phase changes and diagrams, latent heat, ideal gas law, and energy conversion. No prerequisites are specified, and a thermistor is the only special equipment necessary. Part of the Physics of Technology program, a 27-module introduction to physics at a pre-calculus level. The American Institute of Physics coordinated this program in the 1970s, with modules created by Florissant Valley Community College, Oak Ridge Associated Universities, the State University of New York at Binghamton, and TERC. From the Instructor’s Manual : The overall goal of this module is to introduce and examine a variety of ideas concerning the familiar phases of matter (solid; liquid; gas) . Special attention is paid to ways of defining and measuring the energy needed for changing the state of matter - either through warming or cooling a single phase (heat capacity; specific heat) , or through phase transformations (heat of melting; heat of vaporization; etc.). The ordinary concepts of temper

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