Model Relating to Van Der Waals' Law in Thermodynamics, by Richard P. Baker, Baker #249

Geometric Model by Richard P. Baker, Model for Van der Waal's Law

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Geometric Model by Richard P. Baker, Model for Van der Waal's Law
Geometric Model by Richard P. Baker, Model for Van der Waal's Law
Geometric Model by Richard P. Baker, Model for Van der Waal's Law
Geometric Model by Richard P. Baker, Model for Van der Waal's Law
Geometric Model by Richard P. Baker, Model for Van der Waal's Law
Geometric Model by Richard P. Baker, Model for Van der Waal's Law
Geometric Model by Richard P. Baker, Model for Van der Waal's Law

Object Details

maker

Baker, Richard P.

Description

Johannes D. van der Waals (1837-1923), a Dutch teacher, university professor, and theoretical physicist, derived modifications of the law of thermodynamics to account for interactions between molecules of liquids and gases. His research would bring him the Nobel Prize in physics in 1910. In this model, Richard P. Baker, a member of the mathematics department at the University of Iowa, plotted the thermal properties of a substance following van der Waals’s theory.

A tag on the model reads: No. 249 (/) Van der Waals' law

This is one of several models of thermodynamic surfaces made by Baker.

References:

R.P. Baker, Mathematical Models, Iowa City, Iowa, 1931, p. 18.

Stephen G. Brush, The Kind of Motion We Call Heat, Amsterdam: North Holland, 1976.

Location

Currently not on view

Credit Line

Gift of Frances E. Baker

date made

ca 1905-1935

ID Number

MA.211257.044

accession number

211257

catalog number

211257.044

Object Name

geometric model

Physical Description

plaster (overall material)

wood (overall material)

metal (overall material)

brown (overall color)

blue (overall color)

grey (overall color)

black (overall color)

bolted and screwed (overall production method/technique)

Measurements

average spatial: 12 cm x 31.1 cm x 31.6 cm; 4 23/32 in x 12 1/4 in x 12 7/16 in

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Data Source

National Museum of American History

Subject

Mathematics

Metadata Usage

CC0

Link to Original Record

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-3dc5-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record ID

nmah_1082210