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Rubber elasticity in the introductory thermodynamics course

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An experimental set-up is described in which the temperature of a piece of rubber is measured with thin wire thermocouples. It measures and records the temperature change of the rubber as it heats and cools in response to elongation and contraction. This mechano-caloric effect arising from the entropy elasticity of rubber represents a reversible thermal process in clear distinction from most of other heat effects encountered in our daily experience where the irreversibility is inevitably involved. The demonstration experiment has been proved useful in elementary thermodynamic courses for introducing the entropy concept.

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  1. Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka, 560-0043, Japan

    T. Matsuo, A. Inaba & O. Yamamuro

  2. Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Kobe University, Nada-ku, Kobe, 657-8501, Japan

    M. Hashimoto & N. Sotani

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Matsuo, T., Inaba, A., Yamamuro, O. et al. Rubber elasticity in the introductory thermodynamics course. Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry 69, 1015–1020 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1020697115165

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