2. Describe how various thermometers work.
3. Convert temperatures from the celsius to the fahrenheit scale and vice versa.
4. Discuss what is meant by the metabolic rate of an animal and how the maximum rate is related to the animal's size.
5. Define density and calculate the mass of a body of matter given its density and volume.
6. Define pressure and account for the increase in pressure with depth in a liquid or gas.
7. State Archimedes' principle and explain its origin.
8. Use Boyle's law to relate pressure and volume changes in a gas at constant temperature.
9. Use Charles's law to relate temperature and volume changes in a gas at constant pressure.
10. Explain the significance of the absolute temperature scale and the meaning of absolute zero.
11. Show how the ideal gas law is related to Boyle's law and Charles's law.
12. State the three basic assumptions of the kinetic theory of gases.
13. Discuss the connection between temperature and molecular motion.
14. Account for the different of gases, liquids, and solids in terms of the forces between their molecules.
15. Distinguish between evaporation and boiling.
16. Explain what is meant by heat of vaporization and by heat of fusion.
17. Discuss why heat engines cannot be perfectly efficient.
18. Compare heat engines and refrigerators.
19. State the two laws of thermodynamics.
20. Relate entropy to the second law of thermodynamics.