Heat, Temperature & Thermal Equilibrium
Try this: Make the blocks meet exactly halfway between their starting temperatures.
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About this simulation
Put two bodies in contact and watch them meet at the heat-capacity-weighted mean, not at the midpoint.
Taught in Heat & Thermal Equilibrium
- heat versus temperature
- specific heat
- thermal equilibrium
- latent heat
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