Thermodynamics – Cantor's Archive

Thermodynamics

It Took Me 10 Years to Understand Entropy, Here is What I Learned.

From the Big bang to the Heat death of the universe

Relativity

Deriving Einstein’s Gravity Equations From Thermodynamics

Is Gravity Just an Average of the Behavior of Unknown “Atoms” of Spacetime?

Thermodynamics

Temperature Scales

The most widely adopted temperature scale is the Celsius or centigrade scale. Nowadays, we use these terms as synonyms, but, in fact, they were not such, originally.

Entropy

What, Exactly, is Entropy?

Entropy is a bit of a buzzword in modern science. Usually it is used as a synonym for “disorder,” but it is so much more interesting than that.

Electromagnetism

An Unorthodox Lecture on Electric Currents

An introduction to the concept of an electrical current

Physics

The Fascinating Mystery of Systems with Many Length Scales

An Introduction to Critical Phenomena in Physics

Time

Time Is An Illusion Born Out Of Our Ignorance

Deconstructing time using Lorentz transformations, special relativity, and entropy

Astrophysics

Black Hole Entropy and the Laws of Thermodynamics

The Remarkable Similarities Between the Black Holes Mechanics and Laws of Thermodynamics

Feynman

Richard Feynman’s Distinction between Future and Past

“We have a different kind of awareness about what might happen than we have of what probably has happened”

Mathematics

How to Lose Weight, Mathematically

The Harris-Benedict Equation

Physics

The Heat Equation: Forcing

The inhomogeneous heat equation

Physics

The Heat Equation, explained

Your first PDE. Bonus: Fourier series.