1 Heat and Gases Chapter 1 Temperature and Thermometers

Practice 1.1 (p.6)

1 A
2 (a) Lower fixed point: 0 C
Upper fixed point: 100 C
(b) We can reproduce the lower and upper
fixed points by using pure melting ice
and pure boiling water at normal
atmospheric pressure respectively.
3 (II), (IV), (V), (I), (III)
4 (a) Temperature is a measure of the degree
of hotness of an object.
(b) This is because these two fixed points
are easily reproducible.
(c) Divide the range between the two fixed
points into 1000 equal divisions.
(d) John’s statement is incorrect.
Steam point should be the temperature of
steam over pure boiling water at normal
atmospheric pressure.

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