Monday, April 27, 2009

Some of my favourite phase diagrams

Tomorrow's lecture is on phase diagrams. I like the students to realise that there is a lot more to it than just solid, liquid, and gas. So I show them diagrams like these.


I got that here.




I got that here.

This is the lecture I gave last year. The demo videos (which you can't see, sorry) are from the The Video Encyclopedia of Physics Demostrations, which the students love.

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