Unit Overview: We started this unit off by experimenting to come up with a definition for buoyant force.  We took the definition of buoyant forces to relate this to pressure in fluids as well as motion. This branched us into heat where we discussed thermal equilibrium and talked about real life examples of this. We related it back to phase changes and changes in heat energy that set up the basis for thermodynamics.​

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1. Where did I struggle?

I struggle on calculating and using formulas in the heat unit.

 

2. What questions do I still have?

Will an object with lots of pressure result in high temperature?

 

3. What am I going to do to strengthen my understanding?

One thing I could improve on is to read to book a few times and make sure that I know how to use the formulas.

 

Name 2 key things you learned from this unit. (What are your understandings? What are you taking away from this? What real world applications have you seen? What links to other subjects did you see?)

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First thing I learned from this unit is that calorimeter is what we use to determine specific heat capacity. I also learned that hear are convection and electromagnetic radiation.