The Weight Sits on Top and She Still Rights Herself — Metacentric Height and the Free Surface Effect
·8 min read
Whether a floating body capsizes is not decided by where the centre of gravity sits relative to the buoyancy centre. It is decided by the second moment of the waterplane.
Chaos That Begins at the Bottom of a Pot — Rayleigh–Bénard Convection and the Lorenz Equations
·5 min read
The moment buoyancy beats viscosity, and how convection rolls become chaos
Where the Ideal Gas Starts to Lie — Compressibility Factor Z and the van der Waals Equation
·6 min read
Real gases through the compressibility factor, corresponding states, and the van der Waals loop