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High Temperature and Low Duality for the Ising Model on an Infinite Regular Tree
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Today I felt like sharing a computation that I thought was interesting. I'm sure I'm not the first to explore the Ising-Ising duality in this context,…

What Is Heat? Definition in Thermodynamics Explained
One of the most frustrating misconceptions in thermodynamics centers on the actual definition of heat. Many science and engineering students refer to a…

Frequently Made Errors in Heat: Elementary Level
1. Heat, Work, Internal Energy, and Kinetic Energy
"If heat is the motion of molecules, why isn't it Kinetic Energy?"In everyday use, we may think…

Negative Absolute Temperatures: Explanation & Examples
It's a famous result in thermodynamics that you cannot reach absolute zero no matter how hard you try. Given the definition of absolute zero, it is also…
