Conceptual Questions Relating to Temperature, Kinetic Theory, and the Gas Laws

This text provides conceptual questions relating to temperature; thermal expansion of solids & liquids; the ideal gas law; kinetic theory: atomic & molecular explanation of pressure and temperature; and phase changes; humidity, evaporation, & boiling. Advanced Placement® and AP® are trademarks registered and/or owned by the College Board, which is not affiliated with, and does not endorse, this textbook.

Topics

  • absolute zero
  • Avogadro's number
  • Boltzmann constant
  • Celsius scale
  • coefficient of linear expansion
  • coefficient of volume expansion
  • critical point
  • critical pressure
  • critical temperature
  • Dalton's law of partial pressures
  • degree Celsius
  • degree Fahrenheit
  • dew point
  • Fahrenheit scale
  • ideal gas law
  • Kelvin scale
  • mole
  • partial pressure
  • percent relative humidity
  • phase diagram
  • PV diagram
  • relative humidity
  • saturation
  • sublimination
  • temperature
  • thermal energy
  • thermal equilibrium
  • thermal expansion
  • thermal stress
  • triple point
  • vapor
  • vapor pressure
  • zeroth law of thermodynamics