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PHYS 224, Winter 2003
Thermal Physics
Notes
This page will contain links to resources, reference material, and java applets. I
am organizing and adding to it as we go along. Your suggestions for useful
links are most welcome.
Here
is the course web page from the last quarter, Autumn
2002. The syllabus for that term was very different from ours,
but there are some useful resources there.
Wolfram
Reseach web resource - thermodynamics New!
Hyperphysics
- thermodynamics
Fluid mechanics
Special challenging questions for your diversion:
(1) (buoyancy) Quicksand (or mud) is much denser than the human body.
So why do people sink in it?! Why do their eyes bulge before they
disappear? [Flying Circus of Physics, Q 4.130]
(2) (pressure) If you try to pour water into a coiled up hosepipe (wound
around a horizontal axis and open at both ends) it often just won't go through,
even if you're holding the end you're pouring into way up. Why?
[Flying Circus, Q 4.8]
(3) Why do bugs explode over the windshield of a fast-moving car?
[Flying Circus, Q 4.28]
Aerodynamics
of bicycles - a crash course in fluid dynamics. Why do golf balls have
dimples?
Applets:: Hydrostatic
Pressure; Archimedes'
Principle; Buoyancy
force; Wing
Lift (simple); Wing Lift
(advanced);
Various: Soap antibubbles; Pacific Northwest
Hydroprojects; First
balloon to go around the world;
Life
at low Reynolds number - a classic article by EM Purcell.
Sucking water through a
straw; Magdeburg
Spheres; Soap
Bubbles; vortex
shedding simulation movie
Temperature, thermal equilibrium - essay on
temperature.
Ideal gas equation - Ideal gas
equation - plot it
Kinetic theory of gases
and distribution functions
2-D
java Pressure Model with no collisions and equal speeds
2-D java
model with collisions and distribution of velocities
Flowchart
of kinetic theory and related theories, including mean free path
Derivation
of Maxwell velocity distribution
Charged particles in a
box
Atmosphere
model and Boltzmann distribution
Kinetic theory simulation fixed volume
with distribution of velocities and gravity
Kinetic theory - molecules in a balloon;
1-D
one-atom gas pressure model
Lies, damn lies, and
statistics: histogram bin sizes
Diffusion
Brownian
Motion java model of a single particle
Brownian
diffusion of particles into a fluid
Heat and the First Law
Hyperphysics
Beer and ice cream diet - Where's
the catch?
Phase diagram of
water
Phase
transition temperatures
Ideal
gas equation - play with
isobaric, isochoric, isothermal and adiabatic changes
Stop Nuclear Disaster
Heat flow
Black
Body Radiation
Leidenfrost
effect (How I can pour liquid
nitrogen over my hand without getting burnt)
Engines
Carnot Cycle,
Another Carnot
Engine
Otto Cycle,
Another Otto
Cycle
Diesel
Cycle
Stirling Cycle;
Operation of the Stirling
engine
Animations of
historic pumps, engines, etc
Second Law
Bouncing
ball
Mixing
gases
Phases
Tutorial
on phase diagrams
PVT-surface
Laser
Cooling
Bose-Einstein
Condensation
Other links
Bubble puzzles
Atmosphere
Model
Psychic Motor
Thermal
Physics Jokes
Entropy on the World
Wide Web
Satellite Tracker
Layers
of the earth's atmosphere
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