ME Learning Games · Thermodynamics

Feel it before
you formalize it.

No quizzes. No multiple choice. Every idea here is something you drag, hold or push until you feel it — then a puzzle checks whether it stuck, using an example you've never seen before.

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Feel bank, then puzzle. Four to six hands-on examples first, nothing asked of you. Only then a predict → act → compare puzzle, on something new.
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Units arrive just-in-time. You won't see "joule" or "kelvin" in a glossary — you'll meet them the moment you need them to describe what you just felt.
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Prerequisite · Magnitude
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P.1 + Unit 1 · rungs 1–7
What Does a Joule Feel Like?
Lift a bottle, build a kilojoule by hand, drop it, rub your hands, bounce a ball — energy never disappears, it just changes costume.
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Chapter 1 · Basic Concepts
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Unit 2
Temperature — What Is Actually Moving
Particles, a room, tea, sugar, a balloon — one slider, five feels, then a tyre-pressure puzzle.
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Unit 3
System & Boundary — You Draw the Line
Pot vs pressure cooker, thermos, your own body — then a car engine, tagging what actually crosses the line.
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Unit 4
Intensive vs Extensive
Tea, chapati, a pool and a tub — then a two-tanks-merge puzzle built to catch the averaging trap.
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Unit 5
Equilibrium — One Number for the Whole Thing
Tea bands, a heatmap room, ice water, sand — then a refusing thermometer that won't settle until you do.
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Unit 6
Zeroth Law
Shares its rig with Unit 5. Specced, not yet built.
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Unit 7
State, Path & Process
Needs Units 4 and 5 in place first. Specced, not yet built.
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Unit 8
Heat vs Work
The cart scene exists; the stove and Joule-paddle experiments are still to come.
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Unit 9
Property vs Event
An inventory-check drag-sort. Specced, not yet built.
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Unit 10
Pressure & Boundary Work
Closes the chapter — the highest-leverage unit. Every P–v diagram later depends on this landing.
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