Temperature

What you'll learn

• Understand that thermal energy is transferred from a region of higher temperature to a region of lower temperature.
• Understand that regions of equal temperature are in thermal equilibrium.
• Understand that a physical property that varies with temperature may be used for the measurement of temperature and state examples.
• Understand that the scale of thermodynamic temperature does not depend on the property of any particular substance.
• Convert temperatures between kelvin and degrees Celsius and recall the conversion formula.
• Understand that the lowest possible temperature is zero kelvin on the thermodynamic temperature scale, known as absolute zero.
• Define and use specific heat capacity.
• Define and use specific latent heat and distinguish between specific latent heat of fusion and specific latent heat of vaporisation.

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