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Using Rubber-Elastic Material–Ideal
Gas Analogies to Teach Introductory Thermodynamics. Part II: The Laws of Thermodynamics
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Brent Smith
Department of Textile Engineering, Chemistry, and Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695
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December 2002
Vol. 79 No. 12
p. 1453
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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.
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Smith, Brent. J. Chem. Educ. 2002 79 1453.
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Demonstrations; Materials Science; Molecular Properties / Structure; Physical Chemistry; Polymer Chemistry; Thermodynamics
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March 16, 2005
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