macroscopic

Examples of macroscopic in the following topics:

• Temperature

  • In this atom, we will derive an equation relating the temperature of a gas (a macroscopic quantity) to the average kinetic energy of individual molecules (a microscopic quantity).
  • Recall the macroscopic expression of the ideal gas law:
  • Equating the right hand sides of the macroscopic and microscopic versions of the ideal gas law (Eq. 1 & 2) gives:

• Kinetic Molecular Theory and Gas Laws

  • Kinetic Molecular Theory explains the macroscopic properties of gases and can be used to understand and explain the gas laws.
  • The Kinetic Molecular Theory of Gases comes from observations that scientists made about gases to explain their macroscopic properties.

• Quantum Tunneling

  • While the possibility of tunneling is essentially ignorable at macroscopic levels, it occurs regularly on the nanoscale level.
  • And although the wave function never quite reaches 0 (as can be determined from the $e^{-x}$ functionality), this explains how tunneling is frequent on nanoscale but negligible at the macroscopic level.

• Microbe Size

  • These are macroscopic or view-able without a microscope.
  • Some unicellular organisms studied by microbiologists are macroscopic.

• Microstates and Entropy

  • The interpretation of entropy is the measure of uncertainty, which remains about a system after its observable macroscopic properties, such as temperature, pressure, and volume, have been taken into account.
  • For a given set of macroscopic variables, the entropy measures the degree to which the probability of the system is spread out over different possible microstates.

• Defining Anatomy

  • Gross (macroscopic) anatomy is the study of anatomical structures that can be seen by the naked eye, such as the external and internal bodily organs.
  • Human anatomy is the study of the structure of the human body, from the microscopic to the macroscopic.

• Early Eukaryotes

  • Humans have been familiar with macroscopic organisms (organisms big enough to see with the unaided eye) since before there was a written history.
  • It is likely that most cultures distinguished between animals and land plants, but most probably included the macroscopic fungi as plants.
  • Some have huge, macroscopic cells, such as the plasmodia (giant amoebae) of myxomycete slime molds or the marine green alga Caulerpa, which can have single cells that can be several meters in size.

• Ionic vs Covalent Bond Character

  • Though ionic and covalent character represent points along a continuum, these designations are frequently useful in understanding and comparing the macroscopic properties of ionic and covalent compounds.

• Ionic Bonding and Electron Transfer

  • At the macroscopic scale, ionic compounds form lattices, are crystalline solids under normal conditions, and have high melting points.

• Work

  • Work, a quite organized process(as in gas expansion), involves a macroscopic force exerted through a distance.