Chapter 1: Q 1.6 (page 6)
Given an example to illustrate why you cannot accurately judge the temperature of an object by how hot or cold it feels to the touch?
Short Answer
The body skin has no standard reference temperature.
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Chapter 1: Q 1.6 (page 6)
Given an example to illustrate why you cannot accurately judge the temperature of an object by how hot or cold it feels to the touch?
The body skin has no standard reference temperature.
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Calculate the total thermal energy in a gram of lead at room temperature, assuming that none of the degrees of freedom are "frozen out" (this happens to be a good assumption in this case).
In analogy with the thermal conductivity, derive an approximate formula for the viscosity of an ideal gas in terms of its density, mean free path, and average thermal speed. Show explicitly that the viscosity is independent of pressure and proportional to the square root of the temperature. Evaluate your formula numerically for air at room temperature and compare to the experimental value quoted in the text.
The Fahrenheit temperature scale is defined so that ice melts at 320 F and water boils at 2120 F.
(a) Derive the formula for converting from Fahrenheit to Celsius and back
(b) What is absolute zero on the Fahrenheit scale?
An ideal gas is made to undergo the cyclic process shown in the given figure. For each of the steps A, B, and C, determine whether each of the following is positive, negative, or zero: (a) the work done on the gas; (b) the change in the energy content of the gas; (c) the heat added to the gas.
Then determine the sign of each of these three quantities for the whole cycle. What does this process accomplish?

Suppose you have a gas containing hydrogen molecules and oxygen molecules, in thermal equilibrium. Which molecules are moving faster, on average? By what factor?
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