Boston University Physics Applets: P-V Diagram for a Refrigerator

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written by Andrew Duffy

This web page is an interactive physics simulation on the cycles a refrigerator goes through. The user can see that this cycle requires work to move heat, as compared to an engine moving heat to do work.

This is part of a collection of similar simulation-based student activities.

Please note that this resource requires Java Applet Plug-in.

http://physics.bu.edu/~duffy/semester1/c28_cooling_PVdiagram.html

Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Thermo & Stat Mech - Second and Third Law = Refrigerators	- Lower Undergraduate - High School	- Instructional Material = Curriculum support = Interactive Simulation = Tutorial - Audio/Visual = Movie/Animation

Intended Users	Formats	Ratings
- Educators - Learners	- application/java - text/html	Currently 0.0/5 Want to rate this material? Login here!

Access Rights:: Free access
Restriction:: © 2002 Andrew Duffy, Boston University
Keyword:: refrigerator
Record Cloner:: Metadata instance created May 12, 2008 by Christopher Allen
Record Updated:: July 31, 2008 by Taha Mzoughi
Last Update when Cataloged:: March 28, 2008
Other Collections:: The Physics Source

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Duffy, A. (2008, March 28). Boston University Physics Applets: P-V Diagram for a Refrigerator. Retrieved March 25, 2025, from http://physics.bu.edu/~duffy/semester1/c28_cooling_PVdiagram.html

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Duffy, Andrew. Boston University Physics Applets: P-V Diagram for a Refrigerator. March 28, 2008. http://physics.bu.edu/~duffy/semester1/c28_cooling_PVdiagram.html (accessed 25 March 2025).

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Duffy, Andrew. Boston University Physics Applets: P-V Diagram for a Refrigerator. 2002. 28 Mar. 2008. 25 Mar. 2025 <http://physics.bu.edu/~duffy/semester1/c28_cooling_PVdiagram.html>.

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