Sunday, December 17, 2017

thermodynamics - Why water inside a vessel placed in a body of boiling water does not boil?


Imagine a plastic sac filled with water placed in a pan of boiling water. I wonder why the water inside the sac does not boil. The temperature of the water inside the sac should be the same as that of outside water, i.e., 100 deg. celsius.


Similarly if to place a glass tumbler of water inside a pan placed on fire, the water will boil only inside the pan, but not in the tumbler.




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classical mechanics - Moment of a force about a given axis (Torque) - Scalar or vectorial?

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