CHAPTER 3  >  ACTIVITIES  >  INVESTIGATIONS
List of Investigations

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Resistive thermometer
3
Air thermometer and the Kelvin temperature scale
4
Power of a thermoelectric generator
5
Entropy production (in electric heating)
6
Heating water in well insulated container
7
Heating glycol in well insulated container
8
Cooling hot water in thin-walled aluminum container
9
Cold water in drinking bottle, sitting in warm room
10
Dynamics of thermometers
11
Two bodies in thermal contact: side-by side and concentric
12
Copper cylinder in hot water
13
Cooling water in thick-walled PVC container
14
Conduction in copper rod
15
Freezing water and melting ice
16
Liquid wax cooling in water bath
17
Vaporization of water
18
Operating a Peltier device in air
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Peltier generator
20
Cooling (and heating) with a Peltier device
21
Compressing air
22
Rüchardt's experiment and heat transfer (> Chapter 6)
23
Bubble rising in liquid (> Chapter 6)
24
Propagation of sound (> Chapter 5)
25
Stirling engines
26
Air and heat escaping from a room
27
Fast decompression of a leaky air container
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Vaporization of water and cooling with mass transfer
29
Cooling cold water by evaporation
30
Flow and mixing of cold and hot water
31
Hot water cooling in polished and black beer cans
32
Dynamics of an incandescent light bulb