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An unlikely appearance, The Witcher

 This is going to be one of my off topic blogposts as it is not exclusively physics, rather it is a view to the end of a journey and the beginning of a new one. How did it start? During lockdown like many teenagers I was trapped in my house, or was I? I played so many video games during lockdown on my ps4, the best console at the time just before the PS5 released actually. The games I played usually contained a lot of world exploration, these games include: assassin's creed's, Red dead redemption 2, god of war 4 and the Witcher. Very surprisingly assassins creed actually has a book series, a retelling of the main plot most of the time or just adding another layer to the story. The books are also pretty long with roughly 500 pages per book, which I read from year 8 to year 9. They were very forgettable to be honest apart from perhaps 2 or 3 really stand out books. However the Witcher 3 Wild Hunt was a master piece that I still savour over to this day, the content, the story, the
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E = P x T

This is my 2nd blog post ever. How exciting! Unlike my first post this will be of one of me using my physics knowledge. Do you enjoy eating popcorn? I eat popcorn quite frequently and I always have some bits of unpopped corn leftover. This is usually in the 30 - 40 pieces of unpopped corn when heated for 120s, which is too much in my opinion, so I had a problem i had to solve. Problem: left over unpopped corn. How can I reduce this without burning my popcorn and making my kitchen smell like tar? I only have a finite number of popcorn packets so I can't accumulate a large amount of data of how long I've heated popcorn so I have to do it in a simple manner without sacrificing many popcorn packets. I usually heat my popcorn for 120s. Solution: E = P x T The equation of e=pt can be derived by the formula Power = energy (or work done) / time p=e/t. In my current experience of solving physics problems I have most commonly used this equation in electricity funnily enough considering e
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My first look at thermodynamics, The laws.

 My current knowledge of thermodynamics is that it is to do with heat energy. I remember the equation E=1/2mc^2 from my GCSE days of physics. I've also watched some documentaries on how physics has changed and among one of these changes was Entropy, from what I understand entropy is the probability of chaos (or the probability of chaos occurring), which can be symbolised by a hot tea cup, when you remove your wrap your hand around the cup your hand warms up. The heat energy of the tea cup has transferred into your hand and if you put your hand on a new surface then the heat energy will leave its mark on the wall. This is an example of entropy, it is defined by the capital letter S and it puzzles physicists to this day. What i've learnt: As per every aspect of physics there are laws, in this case there are 4. Zeroth law, this law states that if two systems that are both in thermal equilibrium with a third system being introduced then they will be in equilibrium. This law was int
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