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Phases of the moon

Animations to show phases of the moon as viewed from earth and above

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http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/java/MoonPhase.html

Phasor Diagram

It is sometimes helpful to treat the phase as if it defined a vector in a plane. The usual reference for zero phase is taken to be the positive x-axis and is associated with the resistor since ...

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http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/electric/phase.html#c1

Phase Change

A description and diagram of liquid, solid, gas phase transitions including the concepts of latent heat of fusion and vapourisation.

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http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/thermo/phase.html#c1

When capacitors or inductors are involved in an AC circuit, the current and voltage do not peak at the same time. The fraction of a period difference between the peaks expressed in degrees is said to ...

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http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/electric/phase.html#c1

Snow Formation

Phase diagrams for carbon dioxide showing the conditions under which a liquid phase can exist. This is part of a commercial site using CO1 as a cleaning agent. Unfortunately this site uses ...

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http://www.co2clean.com/snowform.htm

Thermographics: Computer visualisation of binary, ternary and quaternary fluid phase equilibrium

The Peng-Robinson equation was solved by various routines and phase equilibria displayed graphically in 3 dimensions. Experimental data is from an American Chemical Society Monograph.

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http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~wgchap/Phase/v3dcmnt.htm

Frits Zernike

Frits Zernike, Groningen (1888 - 1966) received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1953 for the phase-contrast method devised by him, and particularly for his invention of the phase-contrast microscope.

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http://www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/1953/zernike-bio.html