Is there any way to design the website. I am happy to do that :)
Why? It's fast, responsive, easy to navigate and doesn't consume a lot of resources. Looks like a good design.
HyperPhysics (2016)
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
Funny, I wasn’t aware we were aware of the initial conditions of the non-onservable universe.
Why wouldn’t they be different than the initial conditions of the observable universe?
I wasn’t aware we are aware of those, either. In any case, the non-observable universe is certainly a superset of the observable universe.
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#33I thought everyone knew of this site by now. The design is simple, clear, not wordy.
It's a perfect site I've used it when I studied electronics and IT.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
no, cyclic in this context means that all macroscopic system variables (temperature etc) return to their initial conditions
Funny, I wasn’t aware we were aware of the initial conditions of the non-onservable universe.
It's not "initial conditions" as in time=0. Thermodynamic state variables are path independent, so "initial conditions" in this context means the conditions of the reference point in the process from the point you start measuring.
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#35I was keen to explore (even if it's a bit dated) but unfortunately the combination of mobile-browser and dark mode makes a bit of a mess of things.. (making it quite a bumpy ride) I wonder if there are any 'translations' to other formats around? "Second Law of Thermodynamics: In any cyclic process the entropy will either increase or remain the same." I need some clarity about what is meant by 'cyclic' here. Is it per…
A cyclic process is a thermodynamic process that eventually arrives back in its initial state: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermodynamic_cycle
Thanks, had a read and I think I understand approximately. I am still wondering whether biological systems should count as cyclic in this sense too? I think that they seem to, in the returning-to-the-same-state thing, at least across the generations, and even in regular metabolism in some sense - but the law doesn't (intuitively) seem to apply in the biology/evolution case.. it doesn't just diffuse, it can go on in pretty much precisely the same pattern for billions of years it seems? I guess I am probably ignoring something huge about this (like the Sun!?)
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#36I was keen to explore (even if it's a bit dated) but unfortunately the combination of mobile-browser and dark mode makes a bit of a mess of things.. (making it quite a bumpy ride) I wonder if there are any 'translations' to other formats around? "Second Law of Thermodynamics: In any cyclic process the entropy will either increase or remain the same." I need some clarity about what is meant by 'cyclic' here. Is it per…
Good physical examples are refrigerators or gas engines.
I see, thanks. I'm wondering if there might be any good examples of cyclic systems in the natural world too? Both of those devices are complicated, and you'd need to know the operation in detail to be able to connect it with the phases of a state-cycle-diagram.. but maybe something natural might make it easier to understand?
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#37I love this style of note taking. My friends and I are trying to build a modern automatically backlinked note database.
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#38Got me through my UG studies, great resource, glad to see it's still up and running
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#39Now I wish we had HyperChem, HyperCalculus, HyperBio, HyperEverything versions. Love it. Thanks for sharing OP.
https://chemguide.co.uk is great for A-level chemistry.
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#40This is one of those goldmines, like engineeringtoolbox.com that I refer to all the time.