Assignment: 9/4 - Specific Heat & Thermal Expansion

AP PHYSICS TWO-A
2025-09-03T03:52:59Z

Due: Sep 8, 2025 by 11:59pm

2nd period: Jasper Bundy - Please choose someone in class to share their chromebook to the promethean board and play the following video on Thermal Expansion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7XR-HD_Kzo

3rd period: Ivana Fung - Please choose someone in class to share their chromebook to the promethean board and play the following video on Thermal Expansion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7XR-HD_Kzo

Afterward, read the following sections of the scientific paper: The Role of the Oceans in Climate by Bigg, et. al., from the International Journal of Climatology:

Abstract

Intro

1.1 Sea Level Change

The rest of the paper is pure entertainment for you - I printed it because I know some of you will like to see what fields of science are connected to the study of climate change. This scratches the surface.

Remember, this is written by professional scientists for professional scientists, so do your best, but I think you'll surprise yourself with how much you understand. It is good to stretch our reading comprehension skills.

Use a pen and/or highlighter to annotate the following:

References to specific heat capacity (they probably call it heat capacity)

References to thermal expansion (which they might just call expansion sometimes)

Questions you have about meaning

Paraphrases of what you think it's saying

In the text box, write a paragraph (don't go crazy), describing what you think are the main points of section 1.1. Write it in a way you would explain it to an interested peer or family member. We will go over this in class later.

2nd period: Jasper Bundy - Please choose someone in class to share their chromebook to the promethean board and play the following video on Thermal Expansion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7XR-HD_Kzo

3rd period: Ivana Fung - Please choose someone in class to share their chromebook to the promethean board and play the following video on Thermal Expansion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7XR-HD_Kzo

Afterward, read the following sections of the scientific paper: The Role of the Oceans in Climate by Bigg, et. al., from the International Journal of Climatology:

Abstract

Intro

1.1 Sea Level Change

The rest of the paper is pure entertainment for you - I printed it because I know some of you will like to see what fields of science are connected to the study of climate change. This scratches the surface.

Remember, this is written by professional scientists for professional scientists, so do your best, but I think you'll surprise yourself with how much you understand. It is good to stretch our reading comprehension skills.

Use a pen and/or highlighter to annotate the following:

References to specific heat capacity (they probably call it heat capacity)

References to thermal expansion (which they might just call expansion sometimes)

Questions you have about meaning

Paraphrases of what you think it's saying

In the text box, write a paragraph (don't go crazy), describing what you think are the main points of section 1.1. Write it in a way you would explain it to an interested peer or family member. We will go over this in class later.