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Thermodynamics

Thermometry

4A10.10 Thermometers Various thermometers.
4A10.30 Thermocouple  Show a thermocouple.
4A10.40 Temperature Paint Yellow paint turns red when warmed with IR heat.

Liquid Expansion

4A20.30 Density of water A neutral bouyant sphere can float or sink in water.

Solid Expansion

4A30.20 Ball and Ring Heat a ball to fit through a ring.
4A30.60 Expanding wire An iron wire expands when heated by a current.
4A30.80 Rubber Band Contraction A rubber band contracts when heated by a lamp.

Low Temperature 

4A50.10 Superfluid Helium Show the lambda point, the creep effect and the fountain effect.

Heat Capacity, Specific Heat

4B10.30 Melt Wax Heat balls made from different kinds of metal and place them on paraffin.
4B10.70 Ruchardt's Tube The frequency of a ball in a tube with a bottle shows cp/cv.

Convection

4B20.10 Convection square A hollow glass square filled with water is heated with a burner.

Radiation

4B40.10 Light the match A parabolic reflector ignites a flame from a distant heater.
4B40.30 Leslie's cube A variety of surfaces radiate heat.

Heat Transfer

4B50.10 Dewars Monitor the temperature in a silvered and a non-silvered dewar.
4B50.60 Greenhouse Effect A heat lamp warms a sheet of copper.

Mechanical Equivalent of Heat

4B60.00 Mechanical Equivalent of Heat Friction is applied to a water filled copper calorimeter.
4B60.10 Drop Lead Shot A tube with lead shot is agitated.

Adiabatic Processes

4B70.10 Fire Syringe A plunger compresses gas to the flashpoint of paper.

Critical Point 

4C50.10 Critical Opalescence A high pressure cell is heated to the critical point.

Brownian Motion

4D10.10 Brownian Motion  1 micron latex spheres in water are seen through a microscope.

Mean Free Path

Velocity Distribution

4D20.10 Crooke's Radiometer The pressure from light strikes a vane and rotates a wheel.

 4D20.21 Maxwell Velocity Distribution

Kinetic Motion

4D30.10 Kinetic theory A piston vibrates ball bearings.
4D30.20 Ensemble of N Oscillators A group of equal springs and equal masses.

Heat Cycles

4F10.10 Unmixing A fluid is mixed in one direction and unmixed.
4F30.10 Stirling Engine A motor is powered from a thermal reservior and rotates a fan.
4F30.60 Thermobile   A shape-memory wire rotates and acts as a heat engine.
 
 

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