Energy, heat, work, internal energy, the laws of thermodynamics, and the kinetic theory of gases — from the microscopic motion of molecules to macroscopic engine efficiency.
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14 min readEvery breath you take, every balloon you inflate, every weather system on Earth is governed by one elegant relationship: the ideal gas law. PV = nRT connects the pressure, volume, temperature,...
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13 min readWhy does a sandy beach burn your feet while the adjacent sea stays cool, even after the same hours of sunlight? Why does water make the ideal coolant in car engines? Why does a large pot take s...
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14 min readDrop a drop of ink into a glass of water. It spreads — slowly, irreversibly — until uniformly distributed. You will never see the ink spontaneously re-concentrate. Crack an egg: you cannot uncr...
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16 min readThe second law of thermodynamics is arguably the most profound statement in all of science. It explains why time appears to have a direction (why we remember the past and not the future), why n...
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14 min readHeat spontaneously flows from hot objects to cold ones — the direction dictated by the second law of thermodynamics and the concept of entropy. But how does it actually transfer? There are exac...
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13 min readWhat Is the Kinetic Theory of Gases? The kinetic theory of gases is a scientific model that explains the macroscopic properties of gases — pressure, temperature, and volume — in terms of...
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11 min readEvery engine ever built, every metabolic reaction in your body, every star burning in the sky — all operate under one inviolable constraint: the first law of thermodynamics. It is, at its core,...
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12 min readWhat Is Energy? The Definition in Physics The definition of energy in physics: energy is a scalar quantity that measures the capacity of a system to do work or produce heat. It is not a...
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