Q1. In a meeting room, there are chairs, a table, and people. Which of these things has a temperature ( a) lower than, ( b) greater than, or ( c) equal to the temperature of the air?
Q2. If you drop a hot rock into a pail of water, the temperature of the rock and the water will change until both are equal. The rock will cool and the water will warm. Does this hold true if the hot rock is dropped into the Atlantic Ocean? Explain.
Q3. In times past, on a cold winter night, it was common to bring a hot object to bed with you. Which would keep you warmer through the cold night- a 10- kg iron brick or a 10- kg jug of hot water at the same temperature? Explain.
Q4. After you have driven a car for some distance, why does the air pressure in the tires increase?
Q5. How does the combined volume of the billions and billions of hexagonal open spaces in the structures of ice crystals in a piece of ice compare with the portion of ice that floats above the waterline?