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Undergrad How to save petrol in a Petrol Engine
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Undergrad Question about thermal radiation
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Graduate Explaining Temperature Increase with Antenna and Tissue
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Undergrad The role of capillaries in a dilution refrigerator
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Graduate Frequency and energy of EM radiation
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Undergrad Temperature change in a metal due to heat from a distant animal?
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High School Conduction and Diffusion: Two Sides of Heat Transfer?
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Graduate Do rotational degrees of freedom contribute to temperature?
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Undergrad How can heat change be measured under constant pressure?
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High School At what temperature does paper catch fire?
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Undergrad Temperature change in a vacuum?
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Undergrad The Mystery of Room Coolers During an Unusually Hot Summer
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Undergrad Can the Parker Solar Probe Be Cooled by Radiating Heat into Space?
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Undergrad Is the human body a heat engine?
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Undergrad Thermal ballast (or whatever it's called)
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Undergrad Thermodynamics in medicine school
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Undergrad What Happens to Water Temperature and State After Heating for 25 Minutes?
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Graduate Analogies between temperature and time in thermodynamics
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Undergrad How does temperature play a role in nucleosynthesis?
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Graduate Cannot find the Temperature Change inside of a Tank
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Graduate Relation between temperature and boiling point?
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Undergrad Heat Flow Rate: Dependence on Conductivity & Temp Diff
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Graduate Exchanging roles of variable and thermal potential
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Undergrad How do I find an enthelpy value if my temp. is below 50 deg. celcius?
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Graduate How does the number of microstates affect the entropy of an isolated system?
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High School Refraction problem (temperature dependence)
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High School Confused by temperature's effects on air pressure
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Undergrad How to calculate color temperature?
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Undergrad Entropy as a measure of ignorance
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Undergrad Gibbs Energy Confusion: Proving dG≤0 Constant T,P
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Graduate In the context of statistical mechanics can anyone define temperature?
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Undergrad Quasi-Static Processes: Does dQ = 0?
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Undergrad Questions on Stat Mech Physical Adsorption Problem
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Undergrad Is the second law of thermodynamics a law or a tautology?
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Graduate How to measure emissivity of hot (~1000 centigrade) objects
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High School Can ultracapacitors be used to split CO2 into carbon and oxygen?
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Graduate How Do Color and Temperature Interact in Thermal Measurements?
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Undergrad Extensive / Intensive variables in thermodynamics
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Undergrad Can temperature keep rising without limit?
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Undergrad Laws of thermodynamics basically establish its properties?
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Undergrad Regarding Joule's gas expansion experiment
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Undergrad Thermal equilibrium in open systems
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Graduate How can I calculate the R value for a solid in OpenFOAM CFD modeling?
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Undergrad Are Qin and W equivalent in the Rankine and Otto cycles?
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Graduate First law of thermodynamics, mass/energy in the Universe
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Undergrad Temperature and Pressure Calculation
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Graduate The entropy of a Carnot cycle and the efficiency equation
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Undergrad Max Heat Transfer w/ Low Conductivity Brick & Copper
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Undergrad Isothermal Expansion w/ Equal Pressures
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Undergrad Relation between boltsmann/gas constant and temperature
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High School Laws in Otto, Diesel, etc. cycles
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Undergrad Why is the change of enthalpy during a phase change equal to mL?
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Undergrad Internal energy and thermal energy
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Graduate Need help to explain the peak of thermal conductivity
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Undergrad Heating by radiation: how the atoms' speed is increased?
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Graduate Is there an Entropy difference between a cold and hot body
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High School How can this thermodynamic phenomenon be explained
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Undergrad Why do the glass doors at grocery stores become foggy when...
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Graduate The Carnot Cycle: Efficiency and Validity with Gases, Solids, and Liquids
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Undergrad Understanding the Parameters of an Ideal Refrigeration Cycle
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Graduate (Specific) Heat capacity of brass at milliKelvin temperatures
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Graduate Calculating Temperature of Radiation at t1
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Undergrad Airplane question -- How to compensate for losing engine power on one wing....
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Undergrad BTU Calculation for a fireplace-based heater
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Undergrad How do we visualize EM radiation?
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Graduate Thermodynamic energy and Hamiltonian
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Undergrad How does momentum affect the motion of objects in a friction-less environment?
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High School Is temperature considered a scalar quantity?
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Graduate Understanding Perfectly Black Bodies
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Undergrad IR Effects on Incandescent Lamps
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Graduate Bending light with temperature gradients
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Undergrad Rate of pressure increase of contained air being heated
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Graduate How Do Atoms Transition from Electronic to Vibrational Excitation?
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Undergrad Why did the lid of a heated container cave inwards?
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Undergrad Partition Function Derivation: Where Did I Go Wrong?
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Undergrad Does the color of an object change as it gets hotter?
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Undergrad Deriving the Boltzmann distribution
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Undergrad Heat in Crowded Places: Origin and Explanation
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High School What warms atmospheric nitrogen?
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Undergrad Understanding the Molar Heat Capacity of an Ideal Gas
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Undergrad Heat transfer within a laptop computer from CPU and GPU
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Graduate What Does Feynman Mean by the Heat Energy in Springs?
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Undergrad Increasing enthelpy of a liquid
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Fabric with high thermal robustness
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Undergrad Comparing delta(PV) vs P(deltaV)
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Graduate Work done for isothermal process in terms of Helmholtz func
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Graduate Laser induced damage and irradiation time
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Undergrad Does Solar Power Contribute to Global Warming?
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Undergrad Mastering Cooling Soup: Feynman's Explanation of Evaporation and Heat Generation
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High School Why is the volume of a gas bigger during a phase change
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Graduate Blocking the symmetry of motion and the second law
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Undergrad How to quantify the thermal advantages of a white thermos?
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Undergrad Perfect gas in a box with a piston
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Graduate What is the relationship between TdS and dU in the thermodynamics identity?
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Graduate How did H.K. Onnes measure temperature and resistivity?
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Undergrad Thermal dilation formula discrepancy?
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Undergrad Can black body retain it`s absorbed heat energy?
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High School How does insulating glass use vacuum or gas to reduce heat transfer?
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Graduate Cherenkov Radiation: Investigating the Angle
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Graduate Photon upconversion and second law of thermodynamics
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