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Undergrad Heat Transfer in Water: Convection, Expansion & Conduction
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High School Calculating Perfect Bath Temperature: 100L Tub
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Undergrad How do PIR detectors react to plants?
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Graduate Thermodynamics -- Entropy of an Isometric Process
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Graduate Radiation Pressure and Conservation of Momentum
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Undergrad Why do people ignore sweat dropping off as a cooling mechanism
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Undergrad Properties of refrigerant R410B
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Graduate Gas diffusion through a semi permeable membrane
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High School Uncovering the Preference for Certain Types of Energy
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High School Energy Requirement to Levitate 550 lb Mass at Sea Level
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Graduate Second law of thermodynamics and absolute zero
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Undergrad What is enthelpy for combustion of glucose?
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Undergrad (thermo) how to calculate the temperature of a coal furnace (applied)
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Undergrad Heating effects of different lightbulbs
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Graduate Temperature change (first law of thermodynamics)
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Graduate Do photons emitted by charged particles in a uniform loop get canceled out?
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Graduate Thanks in advance.Heat Transfer Modeling: Get Insight for Physical Intuition
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Graduate Thermodynamics - isentropic, polytropic and compressibility
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High School Entropy: why measure disorder?
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Undergrad How does evolution theory fit the entropy theory
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Undergrad What Is the Connection Between Exergy Heat and Losses?
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Undergrad Liquid to gas expansion temperature change in a tank
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Undergrad How does a pressure/temperature difference cause a force?
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Undergrad Crazy steam-hydraulic unit design
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Graduate Heat Diffusion in 3D: Almost Spherical Flow
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High School Why do we have Newton's first law
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Graduate Question about entropy, particles
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Undergrad Does Building Construction Defy the Second Law of Thermodynamics?
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Undergrad Entropy change when the number of particles decreases
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Graduate Negative heat capacity and thermal reservoir
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Undergrad Can i use a neon lamp as radiation detctor?
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Graduate Proof of fundamental thermodynamics equation for open systems
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Graduate Negative T for a spin 1 system in the canonical ensemble
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Undergrad Temperature Conversions: Understanding the Use of Conversion Factors for Rates
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Undergrad Why Doesn't Decreasing Volume Increase Molecular Speed According to Boyle's Law?
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Graduate Classical statistical physics -- Number of microstates
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Graduate Why is Qir < than Qr? Carnot cycle and change in G
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Graduate Can Light Directly Heat Materials Through Phonon Absorption?
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Undergrad Why Are Refrigerators More Complex Than Stoves?
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Graduate Maximum work done in a Carnot Cycle
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Undergrad Air quantity to blow up a tyre
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Graduate Naive Doubt About Thermodynamic Equilibrium
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Graduate Does efficiency always depend on reversibility of the engine?
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High School The Arrow Of Time As Defined By The Forces
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Graduate Pressure and temperature of expanding humid air
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Undergrad Why Does an Expanding Gas Cool Down?
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Undergrad Fuel with Static Air in a Jet engine
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Graduate Why we use enthelpy when we calculate latent heat?
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Undergrad Forced convection over a cylinder
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Graduate Doubts Arising from Clausius' Inequality and the Second Law
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High School The Mystery of Rising Temperatures When Heating is Turned Off
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High School Does temperature change with depth in a fluid?
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Graduate Thermodynamics. Partial derivative tricks.
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Undergrad Why Do Authors Use γ=γ(P,T) Instead of γ=γ(P,T,V) in Thermodynamics?
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Undergrad Are 55% Efficient Peltier Coolers Using Vacuum Technology Real?
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Graduate Alternate Heat Expansion Media for Nuclear Power Plants
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Graduate Thermodynamics of a cannon ball / musket ball shot bullet
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Undergrad Thermodynamic cycle of a solar cell
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Graduate Cooling a gas by releasing it into vacuum: Entropy?
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Graduate How Does Acoustic Radiation Force Affect Particle Movement in Ultrasonic Waves?
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Undergrad Confusion regarding the First Law of Thermodynamics
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Undergrad Why does stretching a rubber band increase its temperature?
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Graduate Heat capacity at constant volume and density
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High School Blackbody Definition: Absorbs All Light & Emits Thermal Radiation
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High School Reversible Processes Explained: Entropy, Time, & More
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High School Heat: Cause or Effect of Vibrating Atoms?
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Graduate Conservation of entropy -- adiabatic process
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Graduate Specific Exergy vs Specific Flow Exergy
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Graduate How to calculate heat dispersion through a solid copper rod?
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Graduate Induction Heating: Calculating Magnetic Field from Temperature
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Undergrad Most efficient temperature to evaporate water?
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High School Has thermal conductivity any relationship with energy?
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Graduate Classical gas with general dispersion relation
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Undergrad Understanding Reversible Fluid Flow and Its Relationship to Reynolds Number
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Undergrad A question about dehumidifiers and condensation
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Undergrad Adiabatic Process: Solving a Thermodynamics Problem
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Graduate Question about Maximum Entropy
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Graduate How can thermal fluctuations decrease entropy?
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Undergrad Stirling engine against solar panels
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High School Why Do Different Materials Glow When Heated?
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Undergrad Is a quasi-static but irreversible process possible?
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Undergrad Thermodynamic Entity: What Is It?
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Undergrad Error in this depiction of a Stirling engine?
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Undergrad Method for determining the latent heat of oils
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Undergrad Why does formation of snow flakes not violate entropy law?
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Graduate Proving Carnot efficiency is maximum and conditions
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Graduate Clarifying Entropy: Does it Always Increase?
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Undergrad Introducing two identical containers with different gasses
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High School Maximum efficiency of a dehumidifier
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Undergrad Heat injection and work during Rankine cycle
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Undergrad Heat conduction between 2 objects
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High School How Can You Maximize the Efficiency of a Venturi Vacuum Pump?
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Undergrad Calculating Temp. in a Heated Vessel: A Problem for Dave
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Graduate Stirling cycle: Why neglect isochoric heat transfers?
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Graduate Definition of efficiency of a thermodynamic cycle
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Undergrad Why does the Dry Air Gas Constant vary?
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Undergrad Thermal expansion of liquid into gas void
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Graduate Enthelpy of an ideal gas and pressure
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Undergrad Coming up with a function to model expected room temperature
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Graduate How does the surface property affect blackbody radiation?
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