During expansion, work done in reversible processes is always said to be greater than irreversible processes (according to my textbook).
However, in the graph above we can see the the area under the PV curve of the irreversible adiabatic expansion is greater than the area below the PV curve of...
Seriously, the single bigest problem with them (besides hijacking my browser's behavior which is beyond the pale), is response time.
Every single action you can take in these tools precipitates a 10+ second page load. Even on a fast network on a fast and lightly loaded machine.
That's more that time enough to lose your train of thought and, because I spend around 10 second on average on a page, it means that it doubles how long it take to get anything done.
Un-fscking-acceptable.
@anonymous Dude! You posted that less than half an hour ago. It's still on the front page.
@dmckee Have you considered simply recording your classes in form of videos and distributing it among students and later clarifying their confusions by chat or mail ? I find that method quite effective and I have seen many teachers use it.
@dmckee I just wanted to check if anyone on hbar knew the answer...
@dmckee I don't know. Maybe. But our teachers give us a time limit to watch the video like say 1 or 2 days. The next day we are told to collect all our queries and get them clarified. Then after a chapter is over we are sent online time bound tests.
But, maybe your situation is different so I can't say much...
But in most classes, a large fraction of the student can't focus on the material the way that kind of presentation demands. And I hate recording material to a lack of audience. The way the room reacts helps me tune my presentation.
@heather The long lags remind me of programming in the 80s and 90s. I learned how to deal with that and can call upon those skills. But it seems so unnecessary.
I'm sure there is a lot of data-base integrity stuff going on behind the scenes, and that stuff takes time, but if the product won't actually work as a remote service, then it has to be local.
To be fair some of these services probably were written in 1992-era Java. (Noting that Java was invented in 1991 and not released to the public until 1995)
@DavidZ i always forget on the timescales with these things. part of me thinks python's been around forever and another part thinks my parents grew up in the stone age.
@DavidZ well, in the slot to the right where present users are listed i see a green geometric design it marks as you. to the left where you talk, i see a hat portrait.
@heather Writing diagrams in latex (with tikz or something) is cool, but not always worth it. If you can do them well in something else that's usually the better part of valor.
@anonymous That's what makes it so odd. It seems that different people are actually getting different URLs for the avatars, rather than just one URL resolving to different images depending on who views it.
@heather I'd say try Inkscape. Though if you wanted to learn TikZ, this is a prime opportunity to do it. Sometimes learning something new spices up your project enough to help you push through it.
Speaking of which I have some projects I should get back to.
@heather Notice that the avatar where you see the green thing is bigger than the ones where you see the hat, because the former is next to three lines of text while the others are next to only one or two lines
@heather Maybe you could help out potential troubleshooting: right-click on the two versions of my avatar (the small one and the big one) and choose "copy image location" or equivalent, and let me know what URLs you get
Oh that's interesting, @heather for you the big image has s=32 and the small one has s=16 whereas for me the big one has s=64 and the small one has s=32
@DavidZ yeah. it's supposed to be a grassy field that has the variable of height ($\phi$) and is bumpy and stuff and then we describe position of the person using the x-y coordinates. then you get into change in height over change in distance stuff.
the stick figure is really a nice touch, I thought. =P
I joined 20 other sites (out of the many) and even with 1 rep was able to post in any of the chatrooms.
For example:
In ELL, I have just 1 rep and have posted messages in its chat. ell.stackexchange.com/users/18923/lamart
This seems like a bug because I should have needed 20 rep to post.
...
heather: For exceptional research effort in her answers and making the site more open to new users from all levels.
And ~4500 reputation in the first 7 months says a lot, too...
I'm looking for Chuck Norris Facts style answers. In case anyone is curious, this question was inspired by Jon's own comment to this question.
EDIT: If you're into cryptography, you may enjoy these facts.
Now with official sanction from the powers that be!
@KristinaLevine, thank you, yes - I'm in 8th grade earth science and the teacher was talking about tectonic plates, and i was wondering about how you could predict future movements of the tectonic plates.
@BernardoMeurer i was about to say "you think I'd drive you nuts pretending" (remembering the color fiasco) and then I realized that's exactly what Darth Sidious would do.
During expansion, work done in reversible processes is always said to be greater than irreversible processes (according to my textbook).
However, in the graph above we can see the the area under the PV curve of the irreversible adiabatic expansion is greater than the area below the PV curve of...
I joined 20 other sites (out of the many) and even with 1 rep was able to post in any of the chatrooms.
For example:
In ELL, I have just 1 rep and have posted messages in its chat. ell.stackexchange.com/users/18923/lamart
This seems like a bug because I should have needed 20 rep to post.
...
heather: For exceptional research effort in her answers and making the site more open to new users from all levels.
And ~4500 reputation in the first 7 months says a lot, too...
What is the best way to explain the differences between heat, kinetic energy, and temperature?
I'm looking for Chuck Norris Facts style answers. In case anyone is curious, this question was inspired by Jon's own comment to this question.
EDIT: If you're into cryptography, you may enjoy these facts.
Now with official sanction from the powers that be!
