By H. Gould, J. Tobochnik
Our objective is to appreciate the houses of macroscopic platforms, that's, structures of many electrons, atoms, molecules, photons, or different ingredients. Examples of established macroscopic gadgets contain structures corresponding to the air on your room, a pitcher of water, a copper coin, and a rubber band (examples of a gasoline, liquid, sturdy, and polymer, respectively). much less universal macroscopic platforms are superconductors, phone membranes, the mind, and the galaxies.
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Heating occurs whenever two solids at different temperatures are brought into thermal contact. In everyday language we would say that heat flows from the hot to the cold body. However, we prefer to say that energy is transferred from the hotter to the colder body. There is no need to invoke the noun “heat,” and it is misleading to say that heat “flows” from one body to another. 9 A farmer owns a pond, fed by one stream and drained by another. The pond also receives water from rainfall and loses water by evaporation.
Richard Feynman, R. B. Leighton, and M. Sands, Feynman Lectures on Physics, Addison-Wesley (1964). Volume 1 has a very good discussion of the nature of energy and work. Harvey Gould, Jan Tobochnik, and Wolfgang Christian, An Introduction to Computer Simulation Methods, third edition, Addison-Wesley (2006). F. Reif, Statistical Physics, Volume 5 of the Berkeley Physics Series, McGraw-Hill (1967). This text was the first to make use of computer simulations to explain some of the basic properties of macroscopic systems.
19. A box of glass beads is also an example of macroscopic systems if the number of beads is sufficiently large. In what ways such a system different than the macroscopic systems that we have discussed in this chapter? 20. Suppose that the handle of a plastic bicycle pump is rapidly pushed inward. Predict what happens to the temperature of the air inside the pump and explain your reasoning. (This problem is given here to determine how you think about this type of problem at this time. ) Appendix 1A: Mathematics Refresher As discussed in Sec.