Monthly Archive: May 2015

Defining Thermodynamics

Entropy is a concept in thermodynamics. It measures heat loss. When any process happens in a physical system, energy is dissipated. When you drive a car, the engine doesn’t just produce forward motion, but also noise and heat. This noise…
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Defining Momentum

There are two main types of momentum: linear and angular. Linear momentum (p), which is primarily used for determining velocities in collisions because the linear momentum is always conserved, is most typically defined to be the product between the mass…
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