Engineering: The challenge of temperature
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## Contents

- Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- 1 Temperature – problem or solution?
- 2 Getting into hot water
  - 2.1 Boiling water
  - 2.2 Thermal effects in outline
  - 2.3 How things change with temperature
  - 2.4 Summary of Section 2
- 3 Gradual temperature effects
  - 3.1 Modelling properties
  - 3.2 Room to rattle: modelling thermal expansion
  - 3.3 Thermal stresses
  - 3.4 Summary of Section 3
- 4 Accelerating temperature effects
  - 4.1 Characteristics of processes activated by thermal energy
  - 4.2 Energy distribution
    - 4.2.1 Quantifying thermal energy
    - 4.2.2 The significance of the average energy
    - 4.2.3 The significance of the distribution of energies
  - 4.3 Thermally activated processes
    - 4.3.1 Arrhenius's law
    - 4.3.2 Competing processes
    - 4.3.3 Getting at the activation energy
  - 4.4 Summary of Section 4
- 5 Sudden temperature effects
  - 5.1 Sudden changes
  - 5.2 What's in a phase?
  - 5.3 Order and chaos
  - 5.4 Critical modelling
  - 5.5 Summary of Section 5
- 6 The water boiler again
  - 6.1 Review
  - 6.2 Refining the specification
  - 6.3 Summary of Section 6
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgements

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