Some Web sites of interest and relevance to Physics 260
Spring 2015
Gas pressure:
Magdeburg hemispheres: Description YouTube
Simulations:
Java Simulations for Statistical and Thermal Physics from Gould and Tobochnik's excellent curriculum development
General references:
Dealing with Java security settings (on physlet, but generalizable)
Wikipedia: thermodynamics, statistical thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, ...
Compendium of sites for Stat Mech & Thermo, also Nano, Quantum
Hyperphysics subsite on Heat & Thermodynamics, Light & Vision, and Electricity & Magnetism : lots of nice calculational modules, also for other subfields
Heat Basics:
Cute applet about heat capacity
Diagrams of temperature vs. heat input (and discussions you can ignore): graph 1, graph 2, graph 3, graph 4
Clear, succinct, elementary discussion of thermal expansion
Coefficients of linear expansion of the elements
Phase Diagrams:
Thorough gentle discussion of phase diagrams
Concise discussion of phase diagrams
Phase diagram of ice: semilog plot with details of ice phases
Timely Application of Ideal Gas Law:
DeflateGate and Gauge Pressure
Entropy:
Applet of bouncing ball and entropy
Extensive, non-technical discussion of entropy
Doug Craigen's thought-provoking comments: Entropy and Evolution and Later Summary Notes
Heat Engines:
Brayton cycle from Wolfram alpha
Brayton cycle turbines for improved thermal-to-electric conversion
Carnot cycle using Mathematica, lots of nice adjustments
Carnot cycle, uses Java; try different values of γ = Cp/Cv ; less convenient than preceding
Refrigeration cycle, qualitative
Thermodynamics of refrigeration, with T-S diagrams
Slide show on refrigeration , more than you likely want to know, but the first few are germane
Otto cycle-car engine, animated
Otto and Diesel with animated p-V diagram excellent illustration!
Otto cycle on YouTube: comparison of theoretical/idea and practical/actual
Similarly, Diesel cycle on YouTube
Graphical and formal analyses of Otto and Diesel engines, more detailed than you want but nice graph and important conclusion
Graphical analyses of Otto and Diesel engines,again more detailed than you want, with more graphs and less math
Radiation:
Black body spectrum, inc. total emitted power
Interference:
Thin film interference (alternate site)
Interference for films and other shapes
Last updated April 1, 2015
