Study Guide

Objective

To teach basic concepts and important relationships for understanding heat and the thermal properties of matter. The course also includes laboratory work, analyzing measurements and writing reports on the results.

Content

Pressure, Archimedes' principle and buoyancy
Fluid flow, linear and quadratic drag
Heat and temperature
Heat capacity and calorimetry
Phase transitions
Humidity
Heating value and combustion
Heating processes with continuous flows
The ideal gas law
Heat transfer mechanisms
Heat conduction through layers
Analysing and reporting measurements from laboratory work (measurement uncertainty, regression analysis)

Evaluation scale

H-5

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

- Can carry out measurements according to instructions and correctly record measurements.
- Can assess the uncertainty of a measured value.
- Can calculate with propagation of errors.
- Can write a report containing all the essential structural elements and present results in an understandable way.
- Can calculate hydrostatic pressure.
- Can use the continuity condition.
- Can determine the nature of the flow (laminar/turbulent) in a pipe.
- Understands central quantities and concepts in heat theory.
- Can make simple calculations with heat expansion, gas laws, heat capacity and heat transport.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

- Can plan measurements to obtain representative values.
- Can systematically note measurements.
- Can calculate uncertainties with regression analysis.
- Can assess the relative impact of measurement uncertainties on the uncertainty of the end result.
- Can write a report with correct formalism regarding units, notation, rounding, table structure and graphical presentation.
- Can calculate forces on bodies in a fluid, both at rest and in relative motion.
- Can do calorimetric calculations.
- Can apply the ideal gas law to closed systems.
- Can calculate heat transfer through flat walls.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

- Can perform measurements efficiently and systematically.
- Can plan the measurements and make corrections to determine the final results with good accuracy.
- Can perform an uncertainty analysis by linearizing physical relationships.
- Can write a report that is balanced, economical and virtually free from formal errors.
- Can present the data and analysis process in a systematic and easy to read manner.
- Can calculate the motion for a body falling though a fluid.
- Can perform calorimetric calculations with phase transitions.
- Can apply the ideal gas law to open systems.

Qualifications

Mechanics (recommended)