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Undergrad Does capillary action use water heat energy?
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Graduate Fluid mechanics/heat transfer - meaning of Nusselt number
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Undergrad Ideal Gas Equation and Temperature change?
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Undergrad How to find internal energy with constant temperature?
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Graduate Question about the Hamiltonian and the third law of thermodynamics
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High School What Are the Correct Units for Kepler's Third Law?
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Graduate Saturated VapourPressure of Steam above Critical Temperature
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Graduate Why Does the Chain Rule in Thermodynamics Include a Negative Sign?
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Undergrad [Stat Phy] What does exhausting the states of a system mean?
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Undergrad Is Negative Kelvin a Real Concept?
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Undergrad Logical explanations of factors, Heat transfer coefficient
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Undergrad DU = TdS - p dV is valid for irreversible process -- Proof
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Graduate Correlated-k method (absorption of radiation)
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Undergrad Why evaporative cooling is a constant wet bulb temp process?
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Undergrad An aluminum cylinder with a steel wire attached
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Graduate What is the net advection of sensible and latent heat?
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Undergrad Questions About Stephan's Law of Thermal Radiation
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Undergrad How does ΔU relate to Cv in an adiabatic process?
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Undergrad Irreversible Process: Heat Transfer Dynamics
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Undergrad Reversible Process: Why is it Important?
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Undergrad Microstate, Macrostate, Probability
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Undergrad Internal energy of any ideal gas
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High School Is Your Steam Saturated or Superheated?
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Undergrad Can an air-only refrigerant system effectively cool a freezer?
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High School Brainstorm: Is absolute zero relative
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Undergrad Liquid temperature under pressure
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Graduate Reversibility in thermodynamics
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High School What Are Reversible Machines and Feynman's Limitations?
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Undergrad Optimizing Evaporative Cooling via Sweat in Dry Desert?
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Undergrad Heat transfer: transient state
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High School Cyclic Thermodynamic processes
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Undergrad Temperature as a property of matter
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Graduate Show that Temperature remains unchanged in phase changes
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Undergrad One Stroke Engine: The Efficiency and Elimination of 2 and 4 Stroke Designs
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Undergrad Amount of nitrogen needed to flush a pipe
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Undergrad Fluid temperature change over cold surface?
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High School Measuring the number of moles of a gas
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Graduate Can Entropy Be Expressed as a Power Series in Terms of Internal Energy?
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Graduate Canonical Ensemble Homework: P(ε) & No. of Microstates with Energy (E-ε)
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Undergrad Radiation Induced Reduction of Fe3O4
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Undergrad Mathematical model of Newton's first law
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Graduate How do living beings evolve in a universe with increasing entropy?
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Graduate Heat radiation between two non-parallel surfaces
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Graduate Thermal radiation inside a cooler
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Graduate Metronomes Synchronizing: Entropy & the 2nd Law
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Undergrad Does moisture escaping from powders decrease chamber vacuum?
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High School Does the volume of water affect efficiency of heater?
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High School Is there a difference between kinetic energy and thermal energy?
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Graduate Gamma detection -- Cherenkov radiation in gamma-scintillator interaction
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Graduate Can the Entropy of a System Always Be Expressed as dU/dT?
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Undergrad Does Heat Apply Force in Molecular Breakage?
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Undergrad Is entropy truly a measure of disorder or is it something else entirely?
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Undergrad Newton's First Law problem -- Conceptual question about KE
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Undergrad Gibbs Energy and chemical equilibrium
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Undergrad Understanding Internal Energy: Kinetic Theory and the Law of Equipartition
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Undergrad Why is Joule-Thomson effect isenthelpic?
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High School Understanding Stefan Boltzmann Law: Derivation and Simulation Guide
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Graduate How to analyze heat transfer effects of viscoelastic fluids
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Undergrad Understanding Entropy: Examples of Unavailable Energy in Everyday Life
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Undergrad How Does Heat Transfer Into a Sphere Over Time?
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Undergrad How Do Sign Conventions Affect Equations in Newton's Second Law?
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Undergrad Why is first TD law different for chemical reactors
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High School How Does Heat Transfer Work: Conduction vs. Radiation?
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High School What Effect Does Opening a Valve in a Vacuum Have on Air Molecules?
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Undergrad Gas Through Porous Plug: Pressure & Temp Change Explained
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Undergrad What differentiates thermal and sound energy?
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Undergrad Solar Thermal Optics - Concentrated Light
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Undergrad Temperature prediction of a material
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Undergrad Given a fixed volume of pressurized air, calculate the flow rate
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Graduate IR spectra (in thermal scope vs IR spectroscopy)
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Undergrad Does thermodynamics tell us that life will eventually end?
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High School Efficacy of white/aluminum tarps at shedding heat
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Graduate Calculating Heat Transfer in Copper Conductors: A Thermodynamics Question
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Undergrad How Long Until the Internal Pipe Reaches 150°C?
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Undergrad Minute physics video: Why Are Airplane Engines So Big?
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Graduate Final pressure and temperature knowing only air mass outflow
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Undergrad Center of mass, Newton's third law, and rocket thrust
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Undergrad Can Physics and Engineering Help Attenuate Sound in a Large Indoor Firing Range?
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Undergrad Speed of sound in steel dependance on temperature
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High School Solve Feymann's Irreversible Machines Puzzle
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High School Condensation & Clouds: Understanding Water's Transformation
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Undergrad Optimizing homemade ice cream freezing with brine
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High School How long does it take for the temperature on Earth to....
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Graduate Why there is a " > " sign in the entropy of an isolated system
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Undergrad Calculating Cooling Time for a Large Building
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High School Internal energy of compressed gas
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High School Understanding Heat: Definition & Unit
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Undergrad Why is cooling with salt and ice so effective?
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Graduate Fundamental thermodynamics relation
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High School Eco-Cooler: plausible? Or snake oil?
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Undergrad Understanding Fourier's Law: Key Concepts and Applications
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Graduate Water flow from pressurized tank - versus temperature
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Graduate How to validate a code written for solution of 1D diffusion?
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High School What attribute makes some fluids more compressible than others?
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Undergrad Infrared radiation from friction
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Undergrad Amount of energy required to heat a kg of water?
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Graduate Logarithm in entropy shows irreversibility of the Universe?
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Graduate Carnot Cycle: Doubt in Reversible Isothermal Heat Addition
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High School Some calculations in Newton's Third Law
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Undergrad Thermodynamics: The Jet Engine
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