Monday, August 27, 2018

thermodynamics - Why does ice melt, wait for 100 degrees and THEN vaporise? Why is not the process of expansion of things continuous?



What I am asking is this: Why can't a body be solid, then solid-ish, then solid-like, then liquid-like, then liquid-ish, then liquid, then vapor-like and then vapor? Why is there a rigid temperature boundaries between solid, liquid and vapor? Why doesn't water simply change "states" in a continuous manner?




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

I am studying Statics and saw that: The moment of a force about a given axis (or Torque) is defined by the equation: $M_X = (\vec r \times \...