Recent content by mikemense

thanks, this looks good!

Dave, Thanks for your efforts. I think I am still looking for specific answers to my specific questions.

What does "all" mean here? I know that all the water in the glass or lake does not freeze all at once. I know that all the water in the pot does not all boil at once. So what do you mean by "all"?

heat transfer media In my work, we talk about three forms of heat transfer, conduction, convection and radiation. I've always understood that, scientifically, this is a messy list. Convection doesn't really belong on this list, it's just a larger scale example of the other two. But I have...

dave, thanks Let me see if I can straighten this out in my own mind. The billiard ball model makes perfectly good sense to me as a way to describe the homogenization of the temperature of a quantity of water. In every collision, the slower moving molecule relieves the faster moving molecule...

H two O singles start club This occurrence of water molecules randomly finding themselves in the right places to form an ice crystal (is that a careful use of the term? Is "pure ice", whatever that might mean, really crystalline? -- but that's a side issue, please let's not get distracted)...

Thank You Mapes I like some of this very much. I like the role of geometry, the increasing ratio of volume to surface. But I have more questions. What does kinetic mean in this context? Is that homogeneous nucleation temperature -42c? Can you explain more about the energy price of...

I am new at this and apologize if this is an inappropriate question per the rules. I hope it is not but I imagine it might be. In all cases, maybe this goes without saying, but in all cases I am looking not only for the answer to my question but also the basis of the answer. I am interested...