{"id":177552,"date":"2016-02-03T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?guid=8136877c15e46617d7fbc47092aec58f"},"modified":"2016-02-03T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T00:00:00","slug":"a-computer-simulation-using-spreadsheets-for-learning-concept-of-steady-state-equilibrium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=177552","title":{"rendered":"A computer simulation using spreadsheets for learning concept of steady-state equilibrium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this paper, we present a simple spreadsheet based simulation activity that can be performed by<br \/>\nstudents at the undergraduate level. This simulation is implemented in free open source software<br \/>\n(FOSS) LibreOffice Calc, which is available for both Windows and Linux platform. This activity aims<br \/>\nat building the probability distribution for the possible macro-states of a system. This has been<br \/>\nachieved by randomly sampling the configuration space consisting of all the possible microstates and<br \/>\ndetermining the corresponding macrostate for each of the samples, which is akin to Monte-Carlo<br \/>\nsimulation. This simulation could act as a very useful tool in engaging students for learning the<br \/>\nconcepts of microstates, macrostates and steady state equilibrium, once the ideas have been<br \/>\nintroduced in the classroom. Further, the effect of the number of particles on the quality of steady<br \/>\nstate equilibrium achieved demonstrates the idea of thermodynamic limit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this paper, we present a simple spreadsheet based simulation activity that can be performed by<br \/>\nstudents at the undergraduate level. This simulation is implemented in free open source software<br \/>\n(FOSS) LibreOffice Calc, which is available for both Wi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-177552","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rss-fuusikaharidus","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}