Engineering: The challenge of temperature
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# Learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:

- relate the temperature of a solid to the mean kinetic energy of its atoms
- use models for thermally induced effects that involve linear, exponential and step changes
- use exponentials, logarithms and graphical methods to interpret data from a thermally activated process in terms of Arrhenius's law
- identify the changes of phase taking place in a variety of critical phenomena
- provide examples of gradual, accelerating and sudden changes in the properties of materials that accompany changes in temperature.
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