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Brent Smith

Department of Textile Engineering, Chemistry, and Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695

J. Chem. Educ., 2002, 79 (12), p 1453

DOI: 10.1021/ed079p1453

Publication Date (Web): December 1, 2002

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History, Education, and Documentation

Abstract

Polymeric rubber-elastic material (REM) is in many ways analogous to ideal gases. This may be used to good advantage as a supplementary system for teaching elementary thermodynamic concepts, equations of state, and the laws of thermodynamics. Part II includes thermometry and the zeroth law, heat, work, energy and the first law, Joule's law, heat capacity, adiabats and isotherms, enthalpy, heat entropy and the second law, heat engines, the Carnot cycle, Maxwell's equations, free energy, and configurational entropy and the third law. Useful examples, demonstrations, and problems are reviewed.

Keywords (Audience):

Upper-Division Undergraduate

Keywords (Domain):

Demonstrations

Keywords (Pedagogy):

Analogies / Transfer

Keywords (Subject):

Materials Science

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