Finding Intensive and Extensive Variables

Highlights of the activity

1. Students will use their thermodynamic variable note cards to sort the variables into intensive and extensive pairs.

Reasons to spend class time on the activity

Using note cards for this activity provides students the opportunity to physically sort the thermodynamic variables into intensive and extensive variables. With the information concerning conjugate pairs on the note card, students would also be able to see that for every conjugate pair, one variable is intensive and the other is extensive. Although this could be shown on a blackboard, the note cards offer students the opportunity to make notes concerning conjugate pairs and intensive & extensive variables directly onto whatever variable they are concerned with.

Reflections

• Reflections from the original implementation.

• Reflections from "official" adapters/adopters.

• Reflections from the general public.

Instructor's Guide

• Wiki version