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Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Why Melt? Melting Without High Temperature

From the post "Young And On Heat"

F=4πEsΔL=FT=3ρD.(ds)T.1α

We see that by driving the system with  varying   T,  we can set the system into resonance at

fres=12π4πEs4πρ

where  m=4πρ,  a sphere of radius 1, mass per unit length,

fres=12πEsρ

Es=3E

where  E is the linear Young's Modulus and  3  the 3D constant for the case of a sphere.

(Es=E for the case of a rod.)

It might be that the sphere will melt at this thermal resonance frequency irrespective of the magnitude of the temperature.

If we consider that on increasing temperature, atoms in a solid vibrates at higher and higher frequency about its mean position in the solid lattice, this would suggest that at a particular temperature when the atoms are vibrating at this resonance frequency,  fres,  the atom will simply break away from the lattice.  That is to say, the solid melts.

So melting is a case of the atoms vibrating at resonance frequency in heat.  And that it is possible to melt without high temperature but by applying  T  at the correct resonance frequency.