Physics is about studying how the universe works, and since you're in it, it's really about understanding you and the world you live in. Hopefully you'll find this very interesting! Seek to improve your learning by polishing each portfolio objective, each online text assignment, and then by noticing physics in your life!

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

18 Energy in Reactions - Making Pudding Faster

So we've been looking at energy transfer, and we wondered, is there a way to make a chemical reaction go faster and with less energy input (activation energy?).  Turns out if you add a certain chemical to pudding, you don't need to heat it, and it becomes pudding in a few minutes...

Draw the diagram below and use it to explain the process of making INSTANT pudding versus REGULAR pudding.


Now if we can just wrap our heads around the idea of friction dissipating energy - usually through heating and radiating...