2nd Week - Fundamental Concepts
2nd Week - Fundamental Concepts
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Recap!
• Any characteristic of a System is known as its PROPERTY
• Pressure (P), Volume (V), Temperature (T) and mass (m), etc.
• also Viscosity (μ), Electric Resistance (R), Thermal Conductivity (k), etc.
𝑷𝟏 − 𝑷𝟐 = 𝝆𝒍𝒊𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒅 𝒈𝒉
𝑷𝟏 = 𝑷𝟐 + 𝝆𝒍𝒊𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒅 𝒈𝒉
𝑷𝒈𝒂𝒔 = 𝑷𝟏 = 𝑷𝟐 + 𝝆𝒍𝒊𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒅 𝒈𝒉
Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics
• Statement: If a body 1 is in thermal equilibrium with body 2 and body
3, then the body 2 and body 3 are also in thermal equilibrium with
each other
What is Temperature?
• Physical quantity used to inform us about how cold or hot something
• Physical quantity related to the microscopic-kinetic energy or particle-kinetic energy of matter
• All matter is made up of particles (Atoms). All atoms are moving unless the temperature is at 0
degrees kelvin, called absolute zero.
Which of the states of matter below have more thermal energy?
State of matter Arrangement and movement of particles
• Has a fixed volume and shape • The particles are packed closely together in an
• Cannot be compressed orderly manner.
• There are strong forces between the particles
• The particles can only vibrate about their
positions
• Has a fixed volume but not a fixed • The particles are packed closely together but not
shape (takes the shape of the in an orderly manner.
container) • Interact by strong forces but weaker than the
• Cannot be compressed easily forces in a solid.
• The particles can vibrate, rotate and translate
throughout the liquid.
• Does not have a fixed volume and • The particles are very far part from each other
shape and in random motion.
• Can be compressed easily • Weak forces
• The particles can vibrate, rotate and translate.
• With high rate of collision
Temperature sensor
• Based on zeroth law of thermodynamics, the temperature of a group of bodies can be
compared by bringing a particular body (a thermometer) into contact with each of them
in turn.
• To quantify the measurement, the instrument should have thermometric properties.
• The commonly used thermometric properties include are:
1) The length of a mercury column in a capillary tube
2) The resistance (electrical) of a wire (Pt100)
3) the emf generated at the junction of two dissimilar metal wires.
1) The length of a mercury column in a capillary tube
This scale is called the Celsius Scale named after Anders Celsius.
Temperature Scale: Kelvin Scale
The absolute temperature scale in the SI is the Kelvin scale, which is related to the Celsius scale by:
Kelvin is useful in science because 0 degrees Kelvin is called Absolute zero, it is the temperature at which
molecules have no vibrational movement and therefore absolutely no thermal energy.
Exercise 1
• A new scale N of temperature is divided in such a way that the
freezing point of ice is 100°N and the boiling point is 400°N. What is
the temperature reading on this new scale when the temperature is
150°C?At what temperature both the Celsius and the new
temperature scale reading would be the same?
1) A System Which Has Neither Mass Nor Energy Transfer Across The Boundary Is called:
A) Closed System
B) Open System
C) Isolated System
D) None of the above
2) Ice melting at the atmospheric pressure is:
A) Isochoric Process
B) Isothermal Process
C) Isothermal and Isochoric Process
D) Isothermal and Isobaric Process
3) Air heating inside closed and rigid container:
A) Isothermal Process
B) Adiabatic Process
C) Isochoric Process
D) Isothermal and Isobaric Process
• Both a gage and a manometer are attached to a gas tank to measure its
pressure. If the reading on the pressure gage is 80 kPa, determine the
distance between the two fluid levels of the manometer if the fluid is
• (a) mercury (𝛒=13,600 kg/m3)
• (b) water (𝛒=1000 kg/m3).