Undergraduate Physics Laboratories (DIRECTOR: FRAN MORRISSEY)
ABSOLUTE ZERO
"It can be assumed that..." My students listen intently as I draw upon my vast knowledge in physics... (Well, maybe!) The picture to the right details one particular physicist working quite intensely as she determines zero point temperature based on the data she obtained from the constant volume gas thermometer.
"You will let us leave early or you won't leave here alive..." Luck for me the lab did end early! But only after some impressive results were formulated. In the next exposure, one of my students frantically computes absolute pressure to obtain his final result. (or maybe he's just a cardboard stand-up supplied to me by the physics department... you'll never know!)
Yes, lab is just all fun and games... but at what expense? When it's all said and done, my "normalized" students have come to understand the universe from the view that there is an underlying order... Also detailed was Lab Section Four's photographer for the evening.
"Sure, crisp 20 dollar bills will do just fine! Right, your free to leave..." The second photo, hahahaha...
"Yes... That is correct. At absolute zero NOT all molecular motion ceases... A bound particle must have a minimum energy not equal to zero as confirmed from the quantum Energy-Time uncertain! In the second picture it can be observed that the motion of the room will also not cease, due to various alcoholic beverages consumed before lab... (Lab on Absolute Zero and Cold Beer; Coincidence? I don't think so!)
The Ideal Gas Law does dictates the relationship between pressure and temperature for this Constant Volume Gas Thermometer.
Most EXCELLENT, Indeed!!!!
PHYSICS 101 & 102 (Thursday Night on the Second Floor of Webster!)
