The document discusses phase transitions in substances as they are heated or cooled. It explains:
- When a solid is heated, it absorbs heat until it reaches its melting point, at which temperature the solid melts and absorbs a large amount of heat called the latent heat of fusion.
- Amorphous solids undergo a glass transition rather than a first-order phase transition like melting. At the glass transition temperature Tg, the heat capacity increases but there is no latent heat absorbed.
- Sublimation is when a solid transitions directly to a gas without passing through the liquid phase, such as when dry ice (solid CO2) turns to gas.
- The vapor pressure of