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Goody has conducted research on temperatures in the stratosphere, thermal equilibrium, and the spreading of heat in the atmosphere. He has also made studies of the atmosphere of Venus...
Jack-Rabbit Start. Free piston engines are still full of bugs, but their seemingly indirect way of generating power has its points. Since the combustion gases start their work cycle at extremely high pressure and temperature, the thermal efficiency of the engine (the amount of mechanical energy that it gets out of the fuel) can be very good. It has no flywheel, crankshaft or connecting rods. It has many valves to shunt air through the various chambers, but they are all self-operating, and none are exposed to high temperature. The engine can be made to run on almost...
...British Thermal Unit-the amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of i lb. of water one degree...
...these is the amplification of radio messages. If an ordinary amplifier is set for too great a gain, all it does is magnify the random noise caused by the thermal motions of atoms and electrons. At the extremely low temperature of liquid helium, thermal motions almost stop, so Dr. Strandberg figured that an amplifier that would work at such temperature might be efficient beyond dreams...
...mesons disintegrate in two-millionths of a second, each forming an electron and two neutrinos, and this lifetime is too short to permit thermal motions in the carbon block to disturb them appreciably. When they lodge in the carbon, they are all spinning in the same direction, and under these conditions the parity principle requires that when they disintegrate, they must shoot out the same number of electrons in each direction along their common spin axis...