Heat

Heat is one of the titles in the series of ASE Lab Books that were published in the early 1970s for the Association for Science Education by John Murray. Each title covered one or two topics and brought together the best of the teaching notes and experimental ideas from members of the association that had appeared in the ASE journal, School Science Review.

The sections of this resource and the topics are as follows.

Thermal expansion
* Some uses for a long aluminium tube
* A model thermostat
* The maximum density of water
* Anomalous expansion of water demonstrated rapidly

Heat transfer
* Comparison of conductivities of various metals
* No-longer-a-vacuum flask
* Radiation of heat through a solid
* A simple low-voltage heat source
* A simple heat radiation meter
* Absorption and reflection of heat and light
* Class experiments on heat radiation
* Demonstrations on heat radiation
* Sunshine recorder
* Measurement of the solar constant and the Sun's temperature

Calorimetry
* Immersion heaters for class use
* The specific latent heat of ice
* Newton's law of cooling

Change of state
* Change of state demonstrations using a thermocouple
* Variation of boiling point with pressure

Kinetic theory
* Adiabatic change
* The Brownian movement
* Quickly improvised 'kinetic theory of matter' model
* Kinetic theory models
* Velocity distribution of particles

General
* The Squealer-a new demonstration thermometer