11 Thermal Physics

11.1 TEMPERATURE SCALE
11.1.1 18th Century Scales
11.1.2 The Kelvin Scale

11.2 KINETIC THEORY OF MATTER
11.2.1 States of Matter
11.2.2 Temperature, Heat, and Internal Energy
11.2.3 Specific Heat and Latent Heat

11.3 IDEAL GAS
11.3.1 Ideal Gas Assumptions
11.3.2 Equation of State for an Ideal Gas
11.3.3 Root-mean-square Speed
11.3.4 Pressure Relationship with Mean-Square-Speed
11.3.5 Internal Energy Relationship with Temperature

11.4 FIRST LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS
11.4.1 Heat and Work
11.4.2 First Law of Thermodynamics
11.4.3 P-V Diagram

11.5 THERMODYNAMIC PROCESSES
11.5.1 Thermodynamic Processes
11.5.2 Isobaric
11.5.3 Isochoric
11.5.4 Isothermal
11.5.5 Adiabatic

11.6 CYCLIC PROCESS
11.6.1 Path Dependence
11.6.2 Cyclic Process

APPENDIX A:
Degree of Freedom

APPENDIX B:
Otto Cycle

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Applets:
States of Matter (PhET)
Kinetic Model of Matter (PhysicsLens)
Gas (Falstad)
Gas Properties (PhET)