Intensive and Extensive Properties: The chemical and physical properties of materials and systems can be classified into intensive and extensive based on the changes in the property with the size of ...

When physicists discover new properties of matter, it usually means better technologies for the rest of us. Superconductors, liquid crystal displays like the ones found in most TVs now, medical ...

THE subject of this excellent little book includes the mechanical properties of matter, and much that is usually treated under the head of Chemical Physics, such as Diffusion and Capillarity. It might ...

Alright guys? What have you got there? Ah, you've each got one of the three states of matter — solids, liquids, and gases. Solids, like this block of ice or this ball, retain their shape and volume.