The general framework to describe and predict the behavior of macroscopic matter, statistical mechanics, was laid down in the 19th century by Boltzmann and Gibbs. The first ingredient of this theoretical framework is the atomistic hypothesis: matter is made ofparticlesobeying Newton’s equations. Comp...
The main train company is London North Eastern Railway (LNER; formerly Virgin Trains East Coast), which operates the fastest services up the east coast. The other major operators of trains between London and Edinburgh is Avanti West Coast (formerly Virgin Trains) and Lumo. How much does the t...
One approach to building a monolithic power plant is to eliminate as much heat dissipation from different components or (in the case of the high-grade quality of this waste heat) to transmit this thermal heat to valuable by-products. By materializing such an idea, the energy conversion ...