The Confined Lennard-Jones System is an idealized statistical mechanics model that simulates a two-dimensional system of particles confined to a box with a constant temperature thermal reservoir at one end and a movable piston at the other. Particles in this model have unit mass and interact through pairwise Lennard-Jones forces and hard-wall contact forces. Slow-moving particles are color-coded as blue and fast particles are color-coded as yellow. The model computes and plots the evolution of the total energy E, the kinetic energy per particle K, the pressure P, and the volume V. The model also displays histograms and mean values of these quantities.
The Confined Lennard-Jones System was created using the Easy Java Simulations (Ejs) modeling tool. It is distributed as a ready-to-run (compiled) Java archive. Double clicking the ejs_stp_md_ConfinedLennardJonesSystem.jar file will run the program if Java is installed.
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Confined Lennard-Jones System Source Code
The source code zip archive contains an XML representation of the Confined Lennard Jones System Model. Unzip this archive in your EJS workspace to compile and run this model using EJS. download 59kb .zip
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6-8: 4E/M4. Energy appears in different forms and can be transformed within a system. Motion energy is associated with the speed of an object. Thermal energy is associated with the temperature of an object. Gravitational energy is associated with the height of an object above a reference point. Elastic energy is associated with the stretching or compressing of an elastic object. Chemical energy is associated with the composition of a substance. Electrical energy is associated with an electric current in a circuit. Light energy is associated with the frequency of electromagnetic waves.
AAAS Benchmark Alignments (1993 Version)
4. THE PHYSICAL SETTING
E. Energy Transformations
4E (9-12) #2. Heat energy in a material consists of the disordered motions of its atoms or molecules. In any interactions of atoms or molecules, the statistical odds are that they will end up with less order than they began?that is, with the heat energy spread out more evenly. With huge numbers of atoms and molecules, the greater disorder is almost certain.
W. Christian, Computer Program CONFINED LENNARD-JONES SYSTEM MODEL, Version 1.0 (2010), WWW Document, (https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=10564&DocID=2048).
W. Christian, Computer Program CONFINED LENNARD-JONES SYSTEM MODEL, Version 1.0 (2010), <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=10564&DocID=2048>.
Christian, W. (2010). Confined Lennard-Jones System Model (Version 1.0) [Computer software]. Retrieved December 14, 2024, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=10564&DocID=2048
Christian, Wolfgang. "Confined Lennard-Jones System Model." Version 1.0. https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=10564&DocID=2048 (accessed 14 December 2024).
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