Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics

The best physics project topics to study depends on what you find interesting. If you find everyday things like motion,...

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Air is compressed to very high pressure until it liquifies. This produces hot high pressure liquid air in a pressure vessel. The...

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FIRST COROLLARY OF THE 1ST LAW: -the application of the conservation of energy to the closed system.Closed system is also known...

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The reason for this is because the hot water rises and as the cold water circulates to the bottom it gets heated and the cycle...

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it entirely depend on what kind of a system you are working with. g is the probablity (number of accessible states) and k ln g is...

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The experimental data in steam tables have been measured in laboratories with precision instruments. They have been verified many...

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Sublimation is a product going from solid state directly to gas state. Carbon dioxide does this--when you lower CO2 to the...

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Conservation of EnergyThe first law of thermodynamics is essentially that energy cannot be created or destroyed, but only...

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It means that the proces is somewhere between an isothermal and a adiabatic proces You have some heat transfer, but not all of it.

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Field of one phase (compared to two phase field, etc)

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In Polytropic process the product of Pressure and Volume (PV) power 'n' is constant where, 'n' is polytropic index

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If you have enough liquid helium, it might smother the fire or cool the combusting materials that are supporting the fire so much...

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isenthalpic expansion is through PRDS or control valve where entropy changes. Whereas expansion through a steam turbine is...

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Assuming ideal gas behaviour for CO2 and air, the mole fraction of CO2 in air wouldbe 0.000385 since the data of 385 ppm are...

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Entropy is the measure of chaos or disorder in a closed system. For example: imagine an empty room with a single cup of tea (or...

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Heat Balance Diagram is representation of Second Law of thermodynamics. in fact it represents the whole cycle of heat inputs and...

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Biological systems are open systems, not closed systems. Open systems require the input of energy to run and produce certain...

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It is a physical change, known as a phase transition (see related links below). There is no chemical change: the water molecules...

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1) In general, the second laws states that all energy in the universe will head towards its lowest state. Another way of stating...

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Being an Electronics and Communication Engineering student the necessities for studying Thermodynamics are the followings- 1. In...

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By definition, an isolated system is one where no mass enters or leaves and no energy enters or leaves. By the first law of...

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ntu is nothing but number of transfer units it is one of the method used to find the heat transfer of hot and cold body it is...

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Separating calorimeter advantages

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energy increases or decreases until a stable or quasi-stable state is reached

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Energy can be neither created nor destroyed

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The radiative heat transfer from one surface to another is equal to the radiation entering the first surface from the other,...

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It was said to be first put into words by Rudolph Clausius and William Thomson (Lord Kelvin.) But it was then said it was...

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That depends entirely on which "Lee" is being referred to and what his or her experiment consisted of. One possibility is that...

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Bose - Einstein Condensate From Wikipedia: "A Bose-Einstein condensate is a phase of matter formed by bosons cooled to...

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Evaporative cooling Any object will absorb heat from its surroundings if the surroundings are warmer than it. Since room...

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when your feet go in shoes and then your feet expand and contract so your shoes will not fit.

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give us investigatory project example about heat and thermal energy

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Latent heat of vapourisation can be define as the rate by which water is heat to vapourise, it has a difference with evaporation...

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the value of polytropic exponent "n" in reversible process will vary from 1 to adiabatic constant "gamma"

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information about value of specific heat capacity of ebonite

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Heat waves are a form of electromagnetic radiation. Therefore, they are transverse waves (oscillate perpendicularly to the...

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water changing from liquid to gas (evaporation) requires energy. if this energy comes from the surface of your skin, your skin...

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Because it's a core concept. Energy don't get transferred or transformed without interactions.

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Assuming this is a chemistry question... The entropy of the system increases, as entropy is considered a measure of randomness of...

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AnswerThe "scale" of each is infinitely big -- in other words, both have no maximum possible temperature. However, one degree...

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The sun converts hydrogen to light energy. This energy must travel through space, where there are no particles. To go through...

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AnswerThere are four laws of thermodynamics, zeroth to third:Zeroth law. If two thermodynamic systems are each in thermal...

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In that case, the resultant will either be the sum or the difference of the two forces (if they act in the same direction) or...

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The freezing point for Peanut Oil is 3 °C (37.4 °F).

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You can make the statement but you have to qualify what you mean. Many people would consider a day that is at 100 °F to be...

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Hydrolics and all things that run off of Hydrolics

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Isothermal process is going on under constant temperature, adiabatic is a process where no heat is exchanged (this does not imply...

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It's obvious when you consider how much longer the days are in Summer.

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The characteristics or properties of gases vary widely. Some gases are transparent, some have a strong smell, some dissolve in...

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The value of absolute zero is the temperature at which all molecules and atoms stop moving completely.

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by heating the disc upto a steady state n then removing it we can measure the thermal conductivity of non metal

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In fire tube boilers, normally the heat transfer area of reference is taken as the outside surface of the tubes. So you use the...

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Type your answer here... There is no such thing as a pure substance. There is always some contamination. If the contaminant is...

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A device for measuring temperature.

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Mechanical energy converts to Thermal (heat) energy by __________. (some sort of machine?)

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the bubbles in boiling water is water in a gasious state rising to the surface.

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Alcohol is used to measure lower temperatures because it has a lower freezing point. At the same time, it also has a lower...

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the force of attraction between the molecules of water is higher then gases but lesser than solids.usually it spreads along the...

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Evolution does not violate the second law of thermodynamics. Anyone who says that it does lacks a correct understanding of the...

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Ficks laws (note that there are two of them) are: Most people are concerned with Fick's first law which relates the diffusive...

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1. It does not tell us the direction of flow of heat, it only does tell us that when two bodies of different temperatures are...

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At thermodynamic equilibrium the dynamic processes for changes in a system have reached a steady state (not changing with time)...

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Therm means heat. Thermal energy is heat energy which has multipurposes, We obtain heat energy from sun which is very helpful for...

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Examples include Urea [CO(NH2)2], Potassium Nitrate [KNO3] and Ammonium Nitrate [NH4NO3]. All are commonly found in "Instant cold...

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Thermal vents.

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conservation of energy

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There are actually 3 Laws of Thermodynamics (the actual number is debatable, but the number ranges from 3-5, depending on your...

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Technically it didn't come from anywhere because it always existed. The western philosophy would say god created the energy....

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Radiation and conduction have nothing to do with it. Convection causes the water at the bottom of the pot to heat up, lowering...

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No, under normal circumstances, yes (perhaps), if we consider superheated liquids. Under normal conditions, when a liquid...

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When too hot your body releases sweat, The sweat needs heat to evaporate so it uses the heat from under the skin to do this. The...

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No. The formation of living organisms occurs through processes that create more increase in entropy in the surroundings than the...

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yes, the pv diagram is a three dimensional view.

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the temperature of ice cubes are lower than the temperature of the water around them. The heat energy from the water is used up...

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Strictly speaking objects do not contain "heat". Heat is energy in transit - think of it as an analog to water compared to rain....

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If energy is absorbed but not emitted as fluorescence it may: increase the energy of the molecules - manifest as an increase in...

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At higher altitudes, water will come to a boil at lower temperatures than at sea level. The pressure at 10,000 ft is 20.58...

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Overall the temperature and randomness of the molecules changes according to the absorption or expulsion of energy in the form of...

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amount of energy required to heat 1 liter of water completely depends on the desired change in temperature. q = Cg m ∆T ∆T...

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The more dilute fluid moves to the side of the membrane with a higher solute concentration, therefore diluting it.The theory can...

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The thermometer is used to measure temperature whether it air, water, molten steel, anything you can think of. Scales of...

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The volume of a gas will decrease. Let's think of some good examples. How about an air tank? Its volume is very small but the...

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There is a large increase in the temperature of the coffee due to the large amount of kinetic energy inputed into the system...

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Thermodynamics are used everywhere. The engines of cars are nothing more than thermodynamic cycles, power plants where you...

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No - work is a "path function"; that is to say, it is a property of a process, not a property of an object or system. Work can be...

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1.3 kJ/(kg·K)

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It is nearly impossible to let a thermos flask lose heat to its surroundings because, space between the double walls of the...

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Pressure is an intensive property. Intuition says it should be extensive (dependent on the size of the system), but since it is...

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because of the gravity of earth

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---- internal friction- The motion-resisting force between the surfaces of particlas making up a substance.

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The relationship is that as the current passing through the wire increases so does the heating effect in the wire. To see its...

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