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Learning outcomes
You should be able to:
■■ use a simple kinetic model of matter to explain phenomena associated with changes of state
■■ explain what is meant by temperature and outline how it can be measured
■■ outline the advantage of the thermodynamic scale of temperature
■■ relate the internal energy of an object to the energy of its particles
■■ use the first law of thermodynamics
■■ define and use specific heat capacity and specific latent
heat, and outline how these quantities can be measured
Chapter 21:
Thermal physics
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