Thermal Physics Unit

Topic

Syllabus Ref.

Text Ref

Lesson / Activity

Assignment

Temperature and Heat
Temperature and Thermometers

3.1.1 - 3.1.2

3.2.3

Sect 13-1, 13-2

(Sect 13-3,13-4 option)

Read 13-1
Heat and Internal Energy
Sect 14-1 to 14-2
Specific Heat Capacity

Sect 14-4 to 14-5

also p442 q# 52

read 14-4 to 14-7

p439 #9,15,16,19

p439-440 #22,23,25,28

Phase Change and Latent Heat

Sect 14-6

Sect 13-14 p405 only

Gas Laws and Kinetic Theory

Gas Laws

Sect 13-7 to 13-10
lesson

determine what vapour pressure is

p412 #17,18,19,23

p414 #36,39

Kinetic Model of an Ideal Gas

10.1.2,

3.2.9 - 3.2.12

Sect 10.2 to 10.3

Sect 13-11 to 13-12

piston demo

vacuum demo

Thermodynamics

Thermodynamic Systems

Sect 15-0 to 15-1

Sect 15-2 (part)

p471 # 2,3,7,9

First Law of Thermodynamics

Sect 15-1 to 15-2

 

Second Law of Thermodynamics

10.3.1

Sect 15-4 to 15-5

Refrigeration Cycle

Review Package - handout do assortment of questions

Entropy

Sect 15-7 to 15-12

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