Thermodynamics / Episode 01
Why do carbonated drinks lose their fizz?
A bottle of soda is a tiny pressure vessel. I’m looking at what happens when dissolved carbon dioxide gets a chance to escape.
Read the reflection00 A personal learning project
Chemistry is everywhere.
I’m learning why.
I research one chemical phenomenon every two weeks and explore the chemical-engineering ideas behind it.
Explore the episodes
A new question every other week
The good stuff is usually hiding in the detail. This is my notebook for finding it.
01 Featured episode
See the archive02 What I’m looking for
Everyday questions,
engineering lenses.
Thermodynamics
Energy, pressure, and equilibrium.
Materials
Structure, strength, and softness.
Transport
How molecules move around.
Reactions
Small changes, new substances.
03 Why this exists
This is a self-discovery project.
Before I commit to chemical engineering in college, I want to try the parts that sound most exciting: asking good questions, following the evidence, and making a complicated idea feel understandable.
About the project