POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Advanced : Re: Advanced Server Time
9 Oct 2024 02:30:55 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Advanced  
From: Invisible
Date: 1 Jun 2009 04:19:45
Message: <4a238f21@news.povray.org>
gregjohn wrote:

> Viscosity will be a continuous function of temperature, and not a step one. A
> week at temps above comfortable room temperature might give similar amount of
> flow as a few seconds at "melting temperature."
> 
> I got a B in a graduate level engineering class on viscosity of glasses.
> <retching emoticon>

As I understand it, for a pure substance it's a step function, and for a 
mixture it tends to be less abrupt. But hey, what would I know about 
anything?


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