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Ice calorimetry lab

Melting ice lab

Rubber band lab

Name the Experiment, Introduction

Name the Experiment: Changing Entropy

Name the Experiment: Maxwell Relations

Name the Experiment: More Maxwell Relations

Constant lines of U and V

Calculating a Total Differential

The Isothermal Bulk Modulus

Introducing Legendre Transform

Comparing System and Surroundings

Comparing Thermodynamic Terms

Is Work Done on or by the System?

Using $pV$ and $TS$ Plots

Making Big Money

Thermodynamic Partials

Analyzing a Simple Cycle using a $pV$ Curve

Always, Sometimes, or Never True

Temperature Change of Dissolving Salt

Two Interacting Black Body Objects

Applying the Second Law

Combining Probabilities

Demonstrating Extensivity in the Fairness Function

Maximizing the Lagrangian

Solve for the Fairness Function

Entropy of a Microcanonical Ensemble

Calculating the Internal Energy of a Diatomic Ideal Gas

Students as molecules dice activity

Thermodynamics Pre-test

Helmholtz free energy expressions

Free expansion quiz and discussion

Naming Thermodynamic Variables

Finding Conjugate Pairs

Finding Intensive and Extensive Variables