Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1782: Human Energy
Posted on · Episode: 1782 Thoughts about energy and the human motor. Today, human energy.
Tag: thermodynamics
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1768: On the Cutting-Room Floor
Posted on · Episode: 1768 On the cutting room floor — When we don’t have the rest of the story. Today, let us pick up some loose ends.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1764: Temperature
Posted on · Episode: 1764 In which we wonder just what our thermometer measures. Today, we ask what temperature is.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1746: Evaporation
Posted on · Episode: 1746 In which a water glass lets me know that things are not as bad as they seem. Today, I learn from a water glass as I come out of sleep.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1732: E. M. Forster & Thermodynamics
Posted on · Episode: 1732 E. M. Forster thinks about Emilie du Chatelet, Voltaire, and Thermodynamics. Today, E. M Forster, Voltaire, and thermodynamics.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1714: “Infinite Reservoire” of Space
Posted on · Episode: 1714 The mischief, in space, of the “infinite reservoir” thought model. Today, let us fill infinity.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1592: Specialized Language
Posted on · Episode: 1592 In which we use fancy words instead of simple ones. Today, the quotidian denominator.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1333: Energy Is Pure Delight
Posted on · Episode: 1333 Energy is pure delight, the conservation of energy. Today, we chase a will-o-the-wisp.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1302: Francois Marcet’s Steam Globe
Posted on · Episode: 1302 Francois Marcet’s steam globe: measuring vapor-pressure. Today, a piece of apparatus and a piece of history.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1239: Canonical Ensemble
Posted on · Today, a practical use for an abstract theory.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1215: The Tyranny of Large Numbers
Posted on · Episode: 1215 The tyranny of large numbers: of averages and ubiquity Today, large numbers do some strange things.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1172: Conservation
Posted on · Episode: 1172 Trying to conserve mass, energy, momentum — and order Today, a thought about conservation and the environment.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1165: Count Rumford
Posted on · Episode: 1165 Benjamin Thompson/Count Rumford and the conservation of energy Today, we meet a Bavarian count who was born in colonial Massachusetts.