... became a Swiss physicist and mathmatician who made enourmous contributions to the world of physics. He uncovered many significant phenomena in hydrodynamics, and in 1738, published his most famous work, Hydrodynamica, which was a study of equilibrium, pressure, and velocity of fluids. He proved that as the velocity of fluid flow increases, its pressure decreases. Bernoulli's principle was an early formulation of the subsequent idea ... the fluid is incompressible then the internal energy is the same, which proves, in turn, that Bernoulli's equation holds true along any streamline. Berno...

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... polymers 5 Synthesis and processing 6 Mechanism of polymer conductivity - role of doping 6 Molecular electron-transfer theory 11 Electroluminescent polymers - second-generation conductive polymers 13 From silicon physics to molecular electronics 14 References and further reading 15 Prize motivation The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2000 to three ... Grubbs' and co-workers' production of polyacetylene by metathesis polymerisation of cyclooctatetraene in the presence of a titanium alkylidene complex as catalyst. Grubbs' polyacetylene...

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-Thermodynamics-branch of physics dealing with processes and laws governing the transformation of heat into other forms of energy, heatmechanical work. -Some names of thermo-Rumford, Davy, Carnot, R.J. Meyer, James Joule-Kelvin/Clausis-thermo theory, Gibbs. -Thermo-study of macroscopic systems-micro systems include mass, velocity, and KE-marco level includes-temp, vol, pressure, thermoconductivity, viscosity, heat capacity. ... the distribution an example being Maxwell distrib. -Kinetic theory-looks at the same thing as the above example but for each molecule per particle, describes the beha...

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... . This emission of light is fascinating because the energy required to produce the light suggests that the temperature inside the bubble exceeds 10,000 Celcius. Scientists are still debating the physics of Sonoluminescence. Although it is still not clear precisely what sequence of events creates the light, laboratory experiments have established several strong theories to explain this phenomenon. The first known ... is that the sounds waves applied to the flask and moving through the liquid to the bubble create a shock wave within the bubble. This shock wave compresses the bubble at a ve...

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