Monday, April 19, 2010

Brownian Motion

Brownian Motion: A Perpetual jiggling of particles, which is the result of the bombardment of the atoms.
Helium does not freeze at absolute Zero temperature!

Sunday, April 18, 2010

I have started reading 'The Feyman Lectures on physics'. I thought of blogging bits and pieces from the book and any other interesting facts on physics in this blog.

  • 10-8 cm - 1 Angstrom
  • Angle formed by H2O - 105º3ˡ
  • Distance between the center of Hydrogen and the center of Oxygen in water is .957 A.
  • Pressure is proportional to the density.
  • When we compress a gas slowly, the temperature of the gas increases slowly.