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Mechanics
Can you cite an example in which the acceleration of a body is opposite in direction to its velocity? If so, what example can you cite to your classmates?
How can devices that heat homes in winter also be used to cool homes in summer?
Make up a multiple-choice question about evaporation and condensation energy changes?
Alcohol evaporates more quickly than water at the same temperature. Discuss which produces more cooling: alcohol or the same amount of water on your skin?
When can you add heat to something without raising its temperature?
When can you add heat to ice without melting it?
When can you withdraw heat from something without lowering its temperature?
Discuss why water can issue from deep underwater vents at temperatures of some 300°C without boiling?
Discuss what the predominant gas is in a bubble of boiling water?
What are the four common phases of matter?
Do the molecules in a liquid all have about the same speed, or do they have a wide variety of speeds?
What is the speed acquired by a freely falling object 5 s after being dropped from a rest position? What is the speed 6 s after?
What is evaporation?
Why is evaporation a cooling process?
Distinguish between condensation and evaporation?
Why is a steam burn more damaging than a burn from boiling water at the same temperature?
Why do you feel uncomfortably warm on a hot and humid day?
Distinguish between humidity and relative humidity?
Why does warm, moist air form clouds when it rises?
What is the basic difference between a cloud and fog?
Distinguish between evaporation and boiling?
Does increased atmospheric pressure increase or decrease the boiling point of water?
The acceleration of free fall is about 10 m/s2. Why does the seconds unit appear twice?
Is it the boiling of water or the higher temperature of water that cooks food faster in a pressure cooker?
Why doesn't the water at the bottom of a geyser boil when it is at 100°C?
What is the adiabatic form of the first law?
What generally happens to the temperature of rising air? Of sinking air?
What is a temperature inversion?
Do adiabatic processes apply only to gases? Defend your answer.
How does the second law of thermodynamics relate to the direction of heat flow?
What three processes occur in every heat engine?
What exactly is thermal pollution?
How does the second law relate to heat engines?
What is the role of equations in this book?
When an object is thrown upward, how much speed does it lose each second (ignoring air resistance)?
Why is the condensation part of the cycle in a steam turbine so essential?
Distinguish between high-quality energy and low-quality energy in terms of organized and disorganized energy? Give an example of each.
How can the second law be stated with regard to high quality and lower-quality energy?
With respect to orderly and disorderly states, what do natural systems tend to do? Can a disorderly state ever transform into an orderly state? Explain.
What is the physicist's term for measure of amount of disorder?
Distinguish between the first and second laws of thermodynamics in terms of whether or not exceptions occur?
Perform the activity in the Thermodynamics Dramatized! box. And show that the pan of water does not have to be cold for the can to collapse. Try warm (but not boiling) water and you'll see collapse.
With a hammer, pound a nail into a piece of wood. Withdraw the nail quickly and feel its warmth! Think and Solve #41 takes this further!
Construct a table of all the possible combinations of numbers that can come up when you throw two dice. Your friend says, "Yes, I know that 7 is the most likely total number when two dice are thrown.
The temperature of the Sun's interior is about 107 degrees. Does it matter whether this is degrees Celsius or kelvins? Explain.
Discuss and answer the preceding question for when the train is rounding a corner.Preceding Question.The temperature of the Sun's interior is about 107 degrees. Does it matter whether this is degrees
When heat flows from a warm object in contact with a cool object, do both objects undergo the same amount of temperature change?
Consider a jar of helium with a temperature of 0°C. What will its temperature be if it is twice as hot (has twice the internal energy)?
When air is quickly compressed, why does its temperature increase?
Suppose you do 100 J of work in compressing a gas. If 80 J of heat escapes in the process, what is the change in the internal energy of the gas?
Why does the bottom of a tire pump feel hot when you pump air in the tire, but when air is released, the valve stem feels cool?
When you blow up a balloon, do you slightly warm the balloon? When air is allowed to rush out of it, how, if at all, does the temperature of that expanding air change?
Why does cold mountain air become warm when it descends into a valley?
What is the ultimate source of energy in coal, oil, and wood? Why do we call energy from wood renewable but energy from coal and oil nonrenewable?
What is the ultimate source of energy in a hydroelectric power plant?
Under what conditions would a heat engine be 100% efficient?
In the preceding exercise, can you think of a reason why the acceleration of the object thrown downward through the air might be appreciably less than 10 m/s2? Discuss your reason with your
Could you warm a kitchen by leaving the door of a hot oven open? Explain.
An electric fan not only doesn't decrease the temperature of air but actually increases the air temperature. How, then, are you cooled by a fan on a hot day?
A refrigerator moves heat from cold to warm. Why doesn't this violate the second law of thermodynamics?
What happens to the density of a quantity of gas when its temperature is decreased and its pressure is held constant?
If you squeeze an air-filled balloon and no heat escapes, what happens to the internal energy of the gas in the balloon?
Why can the drinking bird in Figure 17.4 in Chapter 17 be considered a heat engine?Figure 17.4(a)(b)(c)(d)
According to the second law of thermodynamics, is the universe moving to a more ordered state or to a more disordered state?
Do adiabatic parcels occur in the atmosphere, in the ocean, or in both?
The ocean possesses enormous numbers of molecules, all with kinetic energy. Can this energy be extracted and used as a power source? Defend your answer.
Why do we say a substance in a liquid phase is more disordered than the same substance in a solid phase?
A friend says that if a car is traveling toward the east, it cannot at the same time accelerate toward the west. What is your response?
As a chicken develops from an egg, it becomes more ordered with time. Does this violate the principle of entropy? Explain.
Heat always flows spontaneously from an object with a higher temperature to an object with a lower temperature. Is this the same as saying that heat always flows from an object with greater internal
Your heart is a pump that supplies blood to all parts of your body, including your brain. Particle motion in the brain, like in any device, generates heat. What does this suggest about the
Discuss this statement: The second law of thermodynamics is one of the most fundamental laws of nature, yet it is not an exact law at all. Why not?
What is the origin and meaning of the word thermodynamics?
Is the study of thermodynamics concerned primarily with microscopic processes or with macroscopic ones?
By how much does the volume of gas at 0°C contract for each decrease in temperature of 1 Celsius degree when the pressure is held constant?
By how much does the pressure of gas at 0°C decrease for each decrease in temperature of 1 Celsius degree when the volume is held constant?
If we assume the gas does not condense to a liquid, what volume is approached for a gas at 0°C cooled by 273 Celsius degrees?
What is the lowest possible temperature on the Celsius scale? On the Kelvin scale?
Madison tosses a ball straight upward. Anthony drops a ball. Your discussion partner says both balls undergo the same acceleration. What is your response?
Is the principal concern in the study of thermodynamics the amount of internal energy in a system or the changes in internal energy in a substance?
How does the law of the conservation of energy relate t the first law of thermodynamics?
What is the relationship among heat added to a system, change in the system's internal energy, and external work done by the system?
What happens to the internal energy of a system when mechanical work is done on it? What happens to its temperature?
What condition is necessary for a process to be adiabatic?
If work is done on a system, does the internal energy of the system increase or decrease? If work is done by a system, does the internal energy of the system increase or decrease?
How do meteorologists express the first law of thermodynamics?
Distinguish between constructive interference and destructive interference?
What kinds of waves can show interference?
What is a node? What is an antinode?
What relationship between distance traveled and time did Galileo discover for freely falling objects released from rest?
Can standing waves be formed of transverse waves, longitudinal waves, or both?
In the Doppler effect, does frequency change? Does wave speed change?
Can the Doppler effect be observed with longitudinal waves, with transverse waves, or with both?
What is meant by a blue shift and a red shift for light?
How fast must a bug swim to keep up with the waves it produces? How fast must it move to produce a bow wave?
How fast does a supersonic aircraft fly compared with the speed of sound?
How does the V shape of a bow wave depend on the speed of the source?
A bow wave on the surface of water is two-dimensional. How about a shock wave in air?
True or false: A sonic boom occurs only when an aircraft is breaking through the sound barrier. Defend your answer?
True or false: In order for an object to produce a sonic boom, it must be "noisy." Give two examples to support your answer?
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