https://gdpark.blog/tags/energy/Recent content in Energy on gdpark.blogHugoenThu, 21 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/modern-physics-05-relativistic-mass-momentum-and-energy/Fri, 21 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/modern-physics-05-relativistic-mass-momentum-and-energy/We crack open why mass isn’t as intrinsic as you thought by watching two particles collide across reference frames to see how relativistic momentum really works.https://gdpark.blog/posts/modern-physics-09-x-rays/Tue, 25 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/modern-physics-09-x-rays/X-rays are basically the reverse of the photoelectric effect — slam electrons into a plate with insane voltage and boom, mystery radiation appears (hence the ‘x’!).https://gdpark.blog/posts/thermal-statistical-16-the-first-law-of-thermodynamics-state-functions-and-exact-vs/Sat, 02 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/thermal-statistical-16-the-first-law-of-thermodynamics-state-functions-and-exact-vs/We dig into what heat actually IS, why state functions don’t care about the path you took, and the difference between exact and inexact differentials — hehe.https://gdpark.blog/posts/thermal-statistical-31-equipartition-theorem/Thu, 21 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/thermal-statistical-31-equipartition-theorem/Turns out when energy is proportional to a square, the average only depends on degrees of freedom — let’s verify it step by step using the Boltzmann distribution!