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Anthony Reich, a graduate student at the University of Massachusetts, accidentally obtained a liquid of oil, water, and ...

"The three-dimensional world of ordinary experience—the universe filled with galaxies, stars, planets, houses, boulders, and ...

Many philosophers and scientists have pondered if we live in a simulated universe, and University of Portsmouth scientist ...

A graduate student accidentally created a blend of oil, water and nickel particles that formed an unexpected shape.

The first and second laws of thermodynamics. Entropy and equilibrium. Material and energy balances. Equations of state and properties of fluids. Solutions, phase equilibria, and chemical reaction.

thermodynamic relations, chemical reactions, and phase and chemical equilibrium. Thermodynamics concerns the foundation of all branches of physical sciences. Therefore, this course is highly ...

A curious liquid refused to remain chaotic after being shaken and settled into a smooth, outlined shape like a piece of classic pottery.

In an article published in Foundations, Shirai bridges conventional physical theory and the study of nonequilibrium materials ...

thermodynamic integration methods and their applications to equilibrium solids and grain boundary kinetics, phase transitions in systems of particles with soft repulsive interactions, mean-field ...

By completing this specialization, you will be able to: Understand how the microscopic properties of atoms and molecules relate to classical thermodynamic properties and to some non-equilibrium ...