Book of Thermodynamics
Why You Can't Master Science Without Calculus
Learning science and engineering without calculus is like going to culinary school to become a chef, but leaving with the skills of a cook who can only follow recipes.
Partial Derivatives and How Nature is Built on Them
Introductory calculus courses stop at single-variable slopes and tangent lines, but nature doesn't operate in one dimension.
Why Thermodynamics Needs Both State and Path Functions
Standard textbooks introduce state and path functions with abstract equations, leaving students wondering why physics needs both.
Why Thermodynamics Needs Both Internal Energy and Enthalpy
Why does thermodynamics need two different definitions of energy when heating a gas requires more heat than its internal energy increase?
Professor Justin Lorieau
Visual video essays, animated Manim derivations, and companion problem sets in thermodynamics, quantum mechanics, and physical chemistry. Created from university lectures to build deep mathematical intuition.