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Fluids Review, Temperature and Heat Energy

In this lecture we finished up our discussion of fluids with another example of Archimede's Principle and Pascal's Principle. We then moved on to our first chapter on thermal physics. We introduced the basic temperature scales, thermal expansion and the basics of heat energy.

The main topics are:

• Archimede's Principle
• Pascal's Principle
• Temperature Scales (Fahrenheit, Celsius and Kelvin)
• Linear Thermal Expansion
• Heat Energy
• Specific Heat Capacity
• Latent Heat