My Popular Articles
- Potentiometers Explored - Construction & Working Principles
- Constant Volume Gas Thermometer
- About Thermistors
- How To Identify A Zener Diode
- Simple Heat Transfer Experiments: Convection and Radiation
- Gay-Lussac's Law
- An Introduction to Thermal Stress
- Simple Heat Transfer Experiments: Conduction
- Charles' Law
- Rogue Waves in Sea and Land Disasters
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Thermal Expansion
Have you ever wondered why you can loosen the metal lid of a jar by applying hot water? The answer involves a special thermodynamic property of solids called thermal expansion.Published on August 31, 2011 to Mechanical Engineering
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Thermodynamic Mysteries: Giant Killer Hornets, Honeybees, and the First Law of Thermodynamics
How does the never ending battle between Japanese honeybees and giant Asian hornets help to demonstrate the first law of thermodynamics?Published on August 31, 2011 to Mechanical Engineering
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Shipwrecked - Water, Water Everywhere but Not a Drop to Drink!
Are there really consequences to drinking sea water if you are shipwrecked? Or even if you are safely located on land, does it do any harm if you have to consume sea water?Published on August 31, 2011 to Marine Engineering
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An Elementary Introduction to Heat Capacity
Why do you burn your tongue on the filling and not the crust when you bite into your favorite hot pie? The mystery is solved by examining heat capacity.Published on August 31, 2011 to Mechanical Engineering
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The Shape of the Universe and Human Perception
How does our inability to perceive reality completely impact our perception of the shape of the universe?Published on August 27, 2011 to Space
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How Is Human Energy Harvesting Done?
Which human activities are of interest to researchers in their quest to invent viable human energy harvesting devices?Published on July 5, 2011 to Renewable Energy
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The SWFObject 2 API
This is the conclusion of a two part article on the advantages of using SWFObject to embed your Flash SWFs.Published on July 5, 2011 to Web Development
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An Introduction to XML - Part 2
This article presents the second part of An Introduction to XML, with a brief look at how XML differs from HTML.Published on July 5, 2011 to Web Development
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An Introduction to XML - Part 1
This article presents an introduction to XML, including what it is, and why we use it.Published on July 5, 2011 to Web Development
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Physical Properties of Sea Water - Part II
How do some marine animals exploit electromagnetic interactions within sea water? Why does the sea appear to be blue? This article presents the conclusion on the importance of studying the physical properties of sea water.Published on June 29, 2011 to Marine Engineering