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islingmodel

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,…
heat

What Is Heat? Definition in Thermodynamics Explained

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One of the most frustrating misconceptions in thermodynamics centers on the actual definition of heat. Many science and engineering students refer to a…
heat errors

Frequently Made Errors in Heat: Elementary Level

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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 temperature

Negative Absolute Temperatures: Explanation & Examples

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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…