Chris Collins

Tagged “thermodynamics”

Exploration ·

How a jet engine makes thrust

Follow a parcel of air through a jet engine — squeezed, burned, expanded, thrown out of the back — with the cycle worked out live at every step, then see why airliner fans keep growing and why a car's turbocharger is a little gas turbine.

Physics

Tool ·

Physics calculators

Physical constants and calculators for kinematics, projectiles with air resistance, oscillations, forces on an incline, collisions, waves and sound, lenses and refraction, the eye in dioptres (far point, accommodation by age, reading add), heat, gases, and orbits.

PhysicsBiology and medicine

Tool ·

Thermochemistry

Reaction enthalpy, entropy and Gibbs free energy from standard formation data, with ΔG and K against temperature, Hess's law solved automatically, ΔG° ↔ K and van 't Hoff, calorimetry, and bond-enthalpy estimates.

Chemistry