Reference Tables
The value of standard temperature in Kelvin.
What is 273 K?
By different boiling points or volatility.
What is distillation?
The RHR can help you draw one these mathematical objects, which have magnitude and direction, normal to a surface.
What is a vector?
3.14159265359...
What is pi?
The volume of one mole of ideal gas at STP.
What is 22.4 L?
Rounded to the nearest whole number, the percent composition of oxygen in the atmosphere.
What is 21%?
By particle size.
The RHR helps you determine how to insert these fasteners.
What is a screw?
2.71828...
What is e (Euler's Number, Napier's Constant, etc.)?
An ideal thermodynamic cycle involving two isothermal processes and two adiabatic processes.
What is the Carnot Cycle?
The exponent (order of magnitude) indicated by the metric prefix tera-.
What is 12?
By density and viscosity.
What is centrifugation?
The RHR can help you model the direction of this cross product of force and displacement.
What is torque?
1.61803...
What is the golden ratio (phi)?
An idealized object that absorbs all incident electromagnetic radiation.
What is a Black Body?
The longest electromagnetic waves.
What are radio waves?
By polarity and capillary action.
What is paper chromatography?
The RHR can help you describe this pattern, which happens to be the shape of DNA and the path of an electron takes through a uniform magnetic field.
What is a helix?
About 0.0072973525 or 1/137.036
What is the fine-structure constant (Sommerfeld's constant, alpha, etc.)?
A manner of flow where the fluid follows a smooth layered path with little or no mixing.
What is laminar flow?
The charge on an up quark, charm quark, or a top quark.
What is +2/3 e?
By miscibility and gravity.
What is decantation?
The RHR can be used to model electric current through this type electromagnetic coil often associated with inductance.
What is a solenoid?
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What is the Stony Brook University Police Department Phone Number?
Entropy is assumed to be zero when a crystalline solid is at this temperature.
What is absolute zero?