We start by examining temperature and how to define and measure it. The concept of temperature has evolved from the common concepts of hot and cold. The scientific definition of temperature explains more than our senses of hot and cold.
As you may have already learned, many physical quantities are defined solely in terms of how they are observed or measured, that is, they are defined operationally. Temperature is operationally defined as the quantity of what we measure with a thermometer. As we will see in detail in a later chapter on the kinetic theory of gases, temperature is proportional to the average kinetic energy of translation, a fact that provides a more physical definition.
Differences in temperature maintain the transfer of heat, or heat transfe r, throughout the universe. Heat transfer is the movement of energy from one place or material to another as a result of a difference in temperature. You will learn more about heat transfer later in this chapter. An important concept related to temperature is thermal equilibrium. Two objects are in thermal equilibrium if they are in close contact that allows either to gain energy from the other, but nevertheless, no net energy is transferred between them.
Even when not in contact, they are in thermal equilibrium if, when they are placed in contact, no net energy is transferred between them. If two objects remain in contact for a long time, they typically come to equilibrium. In other words, two objects in thermal equilibrium do not exchange energy. Experimentally, if object A is in equilibrium with object B , and object B is in equilibrium with object C , then as you may have already guessed object A is in equilibrium with object C.
That statement of transitivity is called the zeroth law of thermodynamics. For example, the below chemical equation describing the oxidation of carbon to make carbon monoxide contains all the information regarding matter and bonding:. However, reactions invariably involve changes in enthalpy , with energy typically in the form of thermal energy via heat either being absorbed or released during the reaction.
The more complete reaction would be written as. The Heat of Reaction is the change in the enthalpy of a chemical reaction. Anther way to view endothermic reactions is that more thermal energy is needed to overcome the forces of attraction between molecules and to separate them from one another the activation energy than thermal released when new bonds are formed. When new bonds are generated, more thermal energy is released that needed to break bonds in the reactants.
In this chemical reaction. Raising the temperature favors the reverse reaction endothermic and similarly Lowering the temperature favors the forward reaction exothermic.
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