2d ago · 6 min read · Part 71 of Forgotten Theories, a series re-testing old scientific claims with modern tools. Find the rest under the #forgotten-theories tag. Johannes Diderik van der Waals defended his doctoral thesis in Leiden on 14 June 1873. It was called Over de...
Join discussionApr 7 · 2 min read · In most engineering scenarios, refrigeration systems are designed for moderate climates. But what happens when ambient temperatures reach 45–50°C? This changes everything. The Real Challenge: Temperat
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Feb 19 · 13 min read · Every watt of electricity consumed by any device becomes heat. This is not a design flaw. It is the first law of thermodynamics. The question is whether you do something useful with the energy before
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Dec 11, 2025 · 8 min read · Every microcontroller hums. Beneath compiled code and polished WiFi libraries, beneath the sanitized abstractions we call "digital," there's jitter. Drift. The low growl of entropy that deterministic systems pretend doesn't exist. Most engineers igno...
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Oct 31, 2025 · 2 min read · The partition function refers to the statistical count of the total number of states that a system can access thermally at a given temperature. It has direct mathematical relationships to thermodynamic potentials, like free energy. Hence, by knowing ...
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