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Thermal Physics - OCR A2 Physics

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Define heat:   A measure of the total thermal energy in a system.  
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Define temperature:   A measure of the average kinetic energy of particles.  
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Define specific heat capacity:   The energy required to raise the temperature of 1kg of substance by 1 degree.  
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Define specific heat of vaporisation:   The energy required to change 1kg of liquid into 1kg of gas at constant temperature.  
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Define internal energy:   The sum of all the kinetic and potential energies of molecules within a substance.  
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What is the pressure law?   At constant volume, pressure is directly proportional to the temperature.  
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What is Boyle's law?   At a constant temperature, pressure and volume are inversely proportional.  
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What is Charles' law?   At a constant pressure, the volume is directly proportional to the temperature.  
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Define pressure:   Force per unit area, it is the result of collisions between particles themselves, or particles and the walls of their container.  
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Give three assumptions used in the kinetic theory of gases:   The gas consists of a large number of molecules. The molecules move randomly. Collisions are elastic.  
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What is the equation for the kinetic energy in a single atom?   KE = 3/2KbT  
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What is the equation for the kinetic energy in a mole?   KE = 3/2nRT  
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What is an absolute scale of temperature?   A temperature scale measured from absolute zero in kelvins.  
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What changes and what remains constant during a change in state of a system?   The internal energy changes, the temperature doesn't.  
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What is Brownian motion?   The observation of random motion in air/smoke particles. The experiment saw the smoke particles appear as bright specks moving in a completely random motion.  
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What happens to a gas as the temperature increases?   The average speed increases, the maximum speed increases, and there is a wider range of speeds.  
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What is an ideal gas?   A gas that has internal energy only in the form of random kinetic energy.  
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