Basic principle of scanning transitiometry are presented. The new technique is based on a simultaneous recording of both mechanical and thermal variables of a thermodynamic transition induced by scanning one independent variable (p, T or V) while the other independent variable is being kept constant. Examples are given for applications of the new technique in materials science such as simultaneous determination of % and K x as a function of pressure for a crystalline polyethylene at 363 K, simultaneous determination of heat and volume of transition for isothermal fusion of polyethylene at 423 K and tbr isobaric phase changes in 1--0S5 liquid crysta! (4-n-pentyl-phenylthiol-4'-decycloxybenzoate) at 134.6 MPa. A special attention is paid to the determination of Ctp for dense liquids, theoretical interpretation of its pressure-temperature oehavior and the use of the new technique in verification of equations of state tbr dense condensed systems.