Question

How is the manipulation of thermodynamic derivatives related to snowboarding? [Suggested key words: mountain, snowboard, downhill, change in elevation, different paths, slope, north/south, east/west...]

Answer 1

Note that snowboarding requires plenty of physycs and physco-chemical reactions/equations...

For instance, the presure applied by the snowboard to the snow will increase its fusion temperature.

This means that the snow will increase its vapor pressure, making it easier for the snow to slide, since solid + liquid slides better.

Also, when in downhill, recall that the thermodynamic energy of the system (snowboard) is high, since it is high according to

Q- W = dEk + dEp

dEk = kinetic energy

dEp = potential energy

Q = W = 0

so

dEk =dEp

meaning that we change height for speed/velocity.

The chang ein elevations are directly proportional to the RATE of velocity

For higher rates, we expect higher slopes

Faster speeds downhill --> due to slopes

There are other plenty of equations we could relate to the snowboarding example