Weather and season together are used as a metaphor to reflect characters’ inner feelings and set the tone of the crucial point in the development of the relationship between Gatsby and Daisy. The rain and sunshine when Gatsby and Daisy first meet after five years reflect Gatsby’s nervousness at first and set the emotional tone of the relationship between Gatsby and Daisy from embarrassment to comfort in chapter 5. As a very crucial point in the novel, the setting of Gatsby and Daisy’s first…
Thermodynamics highlights the stream of science attentive to heat and conversions to different forms of energy and work. Not only does the thermodynamic state define volume, temperate and pressure, it will contain heat sources giving a capacity, and change state. The idea of thermodynamics is for the system to adjust itself back into its original state of an equilibrium. Through expressing the laws of thermodynamics, it is apparent that heat energy is important in the world in order to achieve…
The binding factor in nearly all kinds of power plants is how the power is actually produced: something heats water, turning it into steam, which then turns a turbine that generates electricity. The differentiating factor in the differents forms of power plants is how that water is heated. Nuclear plants fancy splitting atoms, coal plants burn coal, and geothermal plants skip the middle man, let Earth do the heating, and simply reap the benefits. Below the surface of Earth is a layer of rock so…
specific heat capacity of a substance? It is the amount of energy required to increase the temperature of one gram of a body by one Kelvin unit, expressed as J/K/g. The specific heat capacity also can be measured in J/K/Kg and J/K/mol. Substance Specific heat Capacity (J/K/g) Water 4.18 acetone 2.17 hexane 2.26 Compare the specific heat capacity of water with a range of other solvents. The table compares the heat capacities of water and two other solvents. Compare the specific heat capacity…
state of highest certainty, or order. Consequently, the universe is continually drifting toward absolute entropy. Another way to state the Second Law is this: energy can only be transferred from systems of high energy to systems of low energy. The heat between a hot kettle and room temperature air flows in the direction of the air until the two are at equilibrium. In other words, systems prefer to stay at a point of lowest potential energy. The two challenges seemingly posed by the Second Law…
life. Whether they know or not, everyone is constantly using some form of energy. Everything from walking, eating, and sleeping are all utilizing energy in different ways. Even applying ice to keep a glass of water cold is exerting a form of energy (“Heat Transfer”). Just like everything else, even ice releases a form of energy when put in water. This type of energy is a mix of convection and conduction. Convection is when thermal energy is transferred from one hot…
1.0) The Ellingham Diagram 1.1) Introduction The Gibbs free energy (∆G) of a reaction is defined as the measure of the thermodynamic force that drives a reaction to occur. When ∆G is positive, it indicates that a reaction will not occur spontaneously while when ∆G is negative, the reaction is spontaneous. The Gibbs free energy equation is given by : ∆G = ∆H –T∆S ∆H refers to the enthalpy and is a measure of the actual energy that is released when the reaction occurs. A negative…
involves discharging short puffs of air into the molten glass, known as gather, which is spooled at one end of the blowpipe. This causes the interior of the glass blob to form an elastic skin similar to that of the exterior caused to the decrease of heat emitted by the furnace. The glassblower can then rapidly inflate the molten glass to a comprehensible form and work it into required…
The Mpemba Effect The Mpemba effect is a rather unusual physical phenomenon where hot water freezes faster than cold water, under certain conditions. Intuitively, this doesn’t make any sense. How could water of higher temperature reach freezing temperature quicker than water of colder temperature? Water freezes when it’s molecules lose energy and slow down enough to stick together, forming ice. The molecules of water of high temperature have more energy the molecules in the colder water. So,…
sauna is a small room which is used to either get dry or wet heat sessions. These heat sessions can have great benefits on different aspects of your health. We will discuss here about some of the advantages gained from spending time in the heat. There are multiple benefits such as increasing endurance and improving muscles. First of all, it is important to understand that it is not easy to enjoy the benefits of a sauna. It produces serious heat and most people are not able to withstand it…