Thermal Properties of Matter

This heading opens the first half of the unit, "Thermal Properties of Matter," which develops the everyday, macroscopic thermal behaviour of gases, liquids and solids -- starting from the ideal gas law and moving through heat capacity, thermal expansion, change of state, calorimetry, and the three modes of heat transfer -- before the unit turns, from section 8.4 onward, to the more formal and systematic subject of therm …