AP Physics
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Monday |
Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| Heat vs. Temp, gas laws, heat expansion | Calorimetry, phase changes | Heat Transfer, 1st Law of Thermo | Processes & cycles, P-V diagrams | Thermo lab |
Equipment needed: pen/pencil, scientific calculator, notebook will be needed everyday
Assignments:
Chapter 10 website Practice Problems due Friday
11/19
Chapter 11 website Practice Problems due Friday 11/19
Chapter 12 website Practice Problems due Tuesday 11/23
Important Vocabulary:
 | temperature, p. 334 |
| heat, p. 334 |
| internal energy, p. 334 |
| ideal gas law, p. 338 |
| mole, p. 340 |
| absolute zero, p. 341 |
| Kelvin temperature scale, p. 341 |
| thermal coefficient of linear expansion, p. 344 |
| thermal coefficient of area expansion, p. 345 |
| thermal coefficient of volume expansion, p. 345 |
| Kinetic Theory of Gases, p. 348 |
| diffusion, p. 349 |
| calorie, p. 361 |
| British thermal unit, p. 362 |
| specific heat, p. 363 |
| calorimetry, p. 366 |
| condensation point, p. 367 |
| sublimation, p. 367 |
| latent heat, p. 368 |
| latent heat of fusion, p. 368 |
| latent heat of vaporization, p. 368 |
| thermal conductivity, p. 373 |
| convection, p. 376 |
| radiation, p. 377 |
| infrared radiation, p. 377 |
| Stefan's law, p. 378 |
| Blackbody, p. 380 |
Important Equations:
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