Gas Laws

These three gentlemen are responsible for the laws describing how gases behave when you do something to them, assuming the gases are ideal. Let’s start with the Ideal Gas Model. An ideal gas is a theoretical gas made up of many randomly moving point particles that only interact when they collide elastically. At normal conditions, such as […]

Calorimetry

Sadly, (or not) this experiment doesn’t have anything to do with the Calories in food. HAHA. The objective of this experiment is to get the specific heat of different metals. But What is specific heat and how do we determine it?  When a reaction or phase change happens, there is energy either released or absorbed known […]

Temperature measurement

I’ve realized I need to up my game if I want my blog to get more recognition. I mean, my entries are so cool they have absolute zero notes. (pun and sarcasm intended). I think by now you should have an idea what our experiment is about and the procedure is fairly easy you can […]

Interference

“What did the black hole say to the other black hole when they passed each other?” “Nothing. He just waved.” One of my friends used this joke on me and it was so witty i had to share it. (u know hu u r). The recent detection of gravitational waves is such a huge deal. […]

Reflection and Refraction

Life has a funny way of working things out First legitimate class for the week, the start of my continuous battle to stay and be a physicist, and I was unprepared. I still had a lot of unfinished business from the previous semester. I wasn’t even enrolled yet. Long story short, I had a lot […]