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Showing posts with label Physics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Physics. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Confined Aquifer

An aquifer is a layer of soft rock, like limestone or sandstone, that absorbs water from an inlet path. Porous stone is confined between impermeable rocks or clay. This keeps the pressure high, so when the water finds an outlet,it overcomes gravity and goes up instead of down without the need for pumping. In this case is the presence of an artesian well.
The Great Artesian Basin is the largest and deepest artesian basin in the world, occupying 23% of the Australian continent.
Great Artesian Basin

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Black Body

Black Body Radiations
A black body is an idealized physical body that absorbs all incident electromagnetic radiation. Because of this perfectabsorptivity at all wavelengths, a black body is also the best possible emitter of thermal radiation, which it radiatesincandescently in a characteristic, continuous spectrum that depends on the body's temperature. At Earth-ambient temperatures this emission is in the infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum and not visible. The object appears black, since it does not reflect or emit any visible light.
Black Body Simulator
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