The Ideal Gas Law.
Pressure and volume are inversely related. Temperature is related to both. This means that the more stuff you have, you either are putting it in a bigger space or putting it under greater pressure. This is why rockets, guns, cars and jets work. If you increase the pressure on your stuff but don’t change the volume, you are going to see an increase in temperature. This is why pressure cookers work.
I really enjoy Manhattan Special. It is carbonated, sweetened coffee and it tastes heavenly. Though it is called Manhattan Special, it’s very hard to find in Manhattan and very easy to find in Brooklyn. I recommend it highly, except for one caveat. When you buy a warm bottle of Manhattan Special, do not, however much you want to, drink it. Stick it in the fridge. Let it cool. Because the Ideal Gas Law applies very heavily to Manhattan Special. If you try to open it warm, the bottle will fizz and spit and shoot everywhere quickly. This is not because you shook it up or because this one bottle was extra fizzy. This will happen every time you try to open a warm bottle of Manhattan Special.
A chilled bottle will behave nicely and will not overflow. Chilled, temperature T is much lower, and correspondingly, there is less pressure p in the bottle of constant volume V. Opening the bottle, the delicious beverage will not try to expand to occupy as much space and you will not be covered in brown liquid, cleaning up your kitchen. This fact is brought to you by me paying attention in physics class.
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So the next time you have Manhatten with too big of a T. Try taking a cold Coke or Pepsi and adding a shot of chilled espresso. -Similar taste- lower P.
Enjoy.
I dunno – As I sit here studying rails I’m looking at the label. It gives the ingredients as
* Pure Coffee
* Carbonated Water
* Aspartame
* Caramel Color
* Potassium Sorbate
* Sodium Benzoate
I don’t think coke or pepsi would taste the same – have you tried coke blak?
Also, cleverly omitted from your solution is where I find a shot of chilled espresso. In my shoes?
BTW – I knew this post was total mooks bait. You can’t resist the formulas! You love science!
QUESTIONNAIRE: Wrong answer given
Mooks bait it was. Nothing says “I’m gonna read that shit your blog” like a physics equation in my bloglines. So seriously – coke black is shit. We used to do this in Ann Arbor at debate camp. Coke x cold espresso = the hotness. I think thats C x E/(T-T/32) = H*
As for the cold espresso – I’ve done it plenty of times with hot espresso – still good just a little more watered down hotness.
but you still haven’t found out why the diet is so much less fizzy than the regular… wasn’t there an issue with that as well?