Model Relating to Van Der Waals' Law in Thermodynamics, by Richard P. Baker, Baker #249
date: label: date made
content: ca 1905-1935
name: label: maker
content: Baker, Richard P.
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content: 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.
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content: A tag on the model reads: No. 249 (/) Van der Waals' law
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content: This is one of several models of thermodynamic surfaces made by Baker.
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content: References:
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content: R.P. Baker, <I>Mathematical Models</I>, Iowa City, Iowa, 1931, p. 18.
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content: Stephen G. Brush, <I>The Kind of Motion We Call Heat</I>, Amsterdam: North Holland, 1976.
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content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Frances E. Baker
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.211257.044
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content: 211257
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content: 211257.044
objectType: label: Object Name
content: geometric model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plaster (overall material)
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content: wood (overall material)
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content: metal (overall material)
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content: brown (overall color)
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content: grey (overall color)
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content: black (overall color)
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content: bolted and screwed (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: 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