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High School Adiabatic or Isobaric process?
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High School Is Infrared Light a kind of light or just heat?
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Undergrad Thermal expansion of air inside a bottle -- some questions....
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Undergrad Stefan-Boltzmann Law: IvdvcosΘdw Explained
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Undergrad Using an IR Thermal Gun to check for steam passing valves
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Graduate Change of Temperature from Work in Hydrostatic System
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Undergrad Heat transfer from a closed cylinder filled with fluid
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Undergrad Kinetic & Potential Energy of 0° Ice/Water: Examined
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Undergrad What factors affect the heating time of a water bottle on a radiator?
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Undergrad Confusion about relation of entropy with temperature.
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High School Warm air goes up....reason on a microscopic scale?
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Undergrad Why does entropy increase when hot water is mixed with cold?
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Undergrad Why do hot metals emit radiation - atom vibrations?
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Undergrad MRI & White Gold: Is Heating a Risk?
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High School Reading properties from a steam table
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High School Analyzing open steady flow systems with SFEE vs. Rankine cycle analysis
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Graduate Viscosity and thermal diffusivity in liquids and gases
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High School Why do objects have internal energy?
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High School Equations that describe ideal gas processes
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Graduate Entropy and heat bath/reservoir
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Undergrad 1st Law of Thermodynamics?
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Undergrad Mechanical Collision: Measuring Sound & Heat
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Undergrad I can’t understand the derivation of the formula Cp=Cv+nR
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Graduate Endurance limit / fatigue strength at high temperatures
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Graduate Measurable consequences of entropy of mixing
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Undergrad Finding the Condensed amount of water from a changing Temperature Airmass
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Graduate Trying to reconcile two definitions of Entropy
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Undergrad Black Body and the colored objects around us
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Graduate Is there a highest temperature?
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Undergrad Heating a small greenhouse - heat loss
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High School Time it takes to convert one form of energy to another?
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Graduate What Is the Frequency of Radiation Emitted by a Constantly Accelerating Charge?
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Graduate Nearly Perfect Efficiency - 2nd Law of Thermodynamics
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Undergrad Thermal efficiency of a Diesel engine
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Undergrad Does entropy increase with improbability?
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Undergrad Time to warm a volume of air to room temperature in a container
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Weird sound coming from thermos flask
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Undergrad How Does Helmholtz Free Energy Change During Constant Temperature and Volume?
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High School Trouble understanding Newton's Third Law in Pulleys
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Graduate An aqueos solution of ##M^+X^-## from Kubo's problems book
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Undergrad Liquid-gas phase transition: metastable mixed states?
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Graduate Zeros of the partition function (Yang-Lee and Fisher zeros)
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Undergrad Would an object heat up or cool down more quickly?
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High School Relation between pressure and volume when heating a gas
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High School Why did the water drops bounce instead of vaporizing on the hot cooker?
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Undergrad Confusion between adiabatic and energy
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Graduate Question about Gibbs free energy from Kubos' Thermodynamics
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Undergrad Do Windmills Violate the Second Law of Thermodynamics?
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Graduate Enthelpy in Throttle Process (Joule–Thomson expansion)
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Graduate Understanding Entropy and the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics - comments
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Undergrad Isothermal Expansion: Explained
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Graduate Surprise? Entropy changes for systems in a canonical state
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Graduate Partial derivatives and thermodynamics
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Graduate Blackbody Radiation: Explained!
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Undergrad Do SI Units Eliminate the Need for Mechanical Equivalent of Heat?
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Undergrad Can Atoms Be Stretched and Do Rigid Bodies Heat Up Under Force?
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Undergrad Why is the 'TS term' included in the expression for Gibbs free energy?
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Graduate Unlocking Realistic Rotational Collisions with Physics & Graphics Engines
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Graduate Light from Cherenkov radiation
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Graduate Temperature of Space: Atomic/Molecular Motion & Equilibria
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Undergrad Is Energy Partially Spent on State Change Below 100°C?
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High School Difference Between Heat & Agitation - Atomic Scale
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Graduate Heat energy input from a hot source in a heat engine
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Undergrad Internal energy and total heat of universe
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Undergrad Negative Kelvin? How Is It Possible?
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Graduate Relation of EM radiation equation to radioactive decay
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Undergrad Correct statement of 2nd law of thermodynamics?
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Undergrad Kelvin and Platinum Temperature Scale.
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Undergrad Does Pressure Multiplied by Volume and Volumetric Flow Rate Equal Force?
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Undergrad Cooler objects able to increase the temperature of warmer objects?
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Graduate Emitted Radiation: Understanding Radiative Damping & Frequency Multiples
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Graduate Why is blackbody radiation continuous?
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Undergrad Newton's first law of motion and Inertial Systems
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Undergrad Thermal Night Vision: Physics Explained
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High School Why is a black surface a better emitter of IR than a silvered surface?
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Graduate Absolute zero temperature is impossible to achieve?
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Graduate Straight line plot of bipolar transistor - temperature?
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Undergrad Can a Body of Water's Temperature Rise Linearly with Constant Heating?
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Undergrad How to approach a more perfect blackbody?
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Undergrad Heat engines can organize thermal energy
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Graduate A technical question about the Joule-Thomson Experiment
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Graduate Change of radiation pressure of sunlight w.r.t. distance
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Undergrad Newton´s second law: Force definition? (Philosophy matter).
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Graduate Can KE be reformulated using |v| instead of v^2?
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Undergrad Energy transfer during uphill vs downhill running
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Graduate Energy of beamed EM field that can heat human tissue
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Undergrad Processes that determine the color of fire
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Undergrad Computer engineering projects for physics. Proposals?
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Graduate Modeling analytical solution of 1D heat equation
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Graduate Elastic collisions and Newton's third law
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Undergrad Solar cooker pots -- Does their color matter?
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Undergrad Compressed Nitrogen: Calculating Pipe Flow Time
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Undergrad Question from a layperson: Particles & temperature
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Undergrad Calculating the rate of rise of air
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Graduate Calculating Temperature Change for Heat Exchanger
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Undergrad Why drop the vibrational ground state energy
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Graduate Thermal radiation in transparent objects
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Graduate No sublimation for human body in vacuum? [Thermodynamics]
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Undergrad Evaporation under vacuum; surface area
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Undergrad Thermal equilibrium and isolation
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