Électrode à disque tournantL'électrode à disque tournant ou EDT (Rotating Disk Electrode ou RDE en anglais) est une électrode de travail hydrodynamique utilisée dans une cellule à trois électrodes. Elles sont couramment utilisées pour des études de cinétique électrochimique en régime stationnaire. Cela vient du fait qu'il est possible, sous certaines hypothèses, de résoudre les équations de Navier-Stokes dans le cas d'une EDT, c’est-à-dire de connaître la vitesse et la direction du flux d'électrolyte au voisinage de l'EDT.
Angular momentum couplingIn quantum mechanics, the procedure of constructing eigenstates of total angular momentum out of eigenstates of separate angular momenta is called angular momentum coupling. For instance, the orbit and spin of a single particle can interact through spin–orbit interaction, in which case the complete physical picture must include spin–orbit coupling. Or two charged particles, each with a well-defined angular momentum, may interact by Coulomb forces, in which case coupling of the two one-particle angular momenta to a total angular momentum is a useful step in the solution of the two-particle Schrödinger equation.
Mechanical efficiencyIn mechanical engineering, mechanical efficiency is a dimensionless number that measures the efficiency of a mechanism or machine in transforming the power input to the device to power output. A machine is a mechanical linkage in which force is applied at one point, and the force does work moving a load at another point. At any instant the power input to a machine is equal to the input force multiplied by the velocity of the input point, similarly the power output is equal to the force exerted on the load multiplied by the velocity of the load.
Carnot's theorem (thermodynamics)In thermodynamics, Carnot's theorem, developed in 1824 by Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, also called Carnot's rule, is a principle that specifies limits on the maximum efficiency that any heat engine can obtain. Carnot's theorem states that all heat engines operating between the same two thermal or heat reservoirs cannot have efficiencies greater than a reversible heat engine operating between the same reservoirs.
