Molecular physics and thermodynamics

Meniscus , (from the Greek meniskos — crescent), the curved free surface of a liquid near the boundary where it touches a solid body (for example at the walls of a vessel).

in thermodynamics, a function of state of the independent parameters that determine the state of a thermodynamic system.

[named after the American physicist I. I.

A term used in technical thermodynamics for the maximum work that a system can perform in passing from a given state into equilibrium with its surroundings.

At the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the USA, construction has been completed of the world's most powerful laser – the National Ignition Facility. $3.5 billion was spent on the needs of the project, and build…

SustainX, the world's leading supplier of energy stores, has brought into service a new large-scale project with no equivalent anywhere in the world.

Mikhail Lukin, professor of physics at Harvard University, and Vladan Vuletić, his colleague from Serbia and professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have in a unique experiment managed to make …

Scientists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg are working on a heat engine that consists of only one ion.

Thanks to recent advances, our refrigerators may work quite differently within a few years.

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