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Undergrad References on thermal power stations and supercritical technology
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Graduate In 3rd step of Carnot cycle, work done on the piston is pdV?
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Graduate Why is entropy a state variable even for irreversible path?
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Graduate Is entropy always bound to increase, even on a small scale?
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Undergrad Maximizing Solar Heat Output with Vacuum Tubes: A Temperature Comparison
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High School How do I convert kW to kWh for my project involving a heat exchanger?
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Graduate Particle Velocity and adiabatic/isothermal propagation
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Graduate Does a probability distribution correctly describe entropy?
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Undergrad Why do bridges freeze before roads?
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Undergrad Helmholtz Free Energy: Why is F Minimized?
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Graduate What happens at the end of entropy?
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Graduate A question on absolute kelvin temperature scale.
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Graduate Spectral Intensity as a Function of Wavelength in Blackbody Radiation
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Graduate Axisymmetric radiative transfer
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Undergrad Explain Graphs -- adiabatic Expansion of mono- di- and poly- gas
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Undergrad Factors that determine the coefficient of linear expansion
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Undergrad How Does Internal Energy Affect the Rest Mass of a Clock?
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Undergrad Why Does Fire Not Travel Backwards in a Gas Hose During Ignition?
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Graduate Is the idea of negative absolute temperature analogous to a virtual image?
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Undergrad Thermodynamics College Project
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Undergrad Temperature ballance, two systems
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Undergrad Help with light bulb radiation
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Graduate Why do atoms undergo fission/fusion instead of emitting radiation?
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Graduate Some Questions about entropy....
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Graduate Critical temperature, or: Is the supercritical liquid a phase?
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Undergrad Does Increasing PSI on a Boiler Increase its BHP Output?
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Graduate Can Vacuum-Induced Evaporation Explain the Loss of Water in Comets?
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Undergrad Time, Entropy and Change: A Conjecture & Discussion
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Graduate Does entropy increase behind surface tension?
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Graduate Entropy: Thermodynamics & Information Theory Explained
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Graduate What is the formula 1/(dS/dE)>>0 and how does it apply?
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Undergrad Designing Cryostats: Finding Heat Input for 50ml/hr Boil Off Rate
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Undergrad Do laws of thermodynamics really apply to ecosystems?
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Undergrad Compressibility of liquid vs solid actual numbers
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Graduate Questions for curious engineers
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Graduate How to Solve Isothermal Incompressible Navier-Stokes for Compressible Fluid?
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Undergrad What Are the Key Concepts and Misconceptions in Thermodynamics?
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High School Perpetual Machine: Is It Possible?
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Undergrad Skin temperature increase due to radiation absorption
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Undergrad Trying to understand the drinking bird toy better
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Undergrad How can heat capacity be determined when both pressure and volume are changing?
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Undergrad Thermal velocity of a soccer ball
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Undergrad Help me to solve my house swimming pool temperature problem please
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Graduate Nitinol Engine Design: Exploring Efficiency and Power Harnessing Techniques
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Undergrad Two Questions about thermal radiation....
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Undergrad Revisiting Newton's Second Law
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Graduate Definition(s) of "reversible" -- thermodynamics vs mechanical?
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Graduate Fundamental Thermodynamics Relation
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Graduate Solving the Thermodynamics Paradox with a Ball-Earth System
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Undergrad Qs re average and peak wavelength of Planck distribution
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Undergrad Contradiction with Kirchhoff's Radiation Law?
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Graduate Entropy and temperature question
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Graduate Entropy of ideal gas: Volume it *has* or is *allowed* to have?
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Graduate Does gravity tend to decrease the entropy?
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High School Why Is the Boltzmann Factor Exponential?
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Graduate Time & Entropy: Deeper Meaning, Equations & References
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Graduate Definition(s) of entropy in continuum mechanics
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Undergrad Question about converting propane vapor volume to liquid gallons
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Undergrad How to calculate the calories burnt during walking
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Undergrad Energy needed to decrease or increase entropy?
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Graduate Entropy change : pure mixing of gases
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Graduate Temperature fluctuations in helium
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Undergrad Overall energy input in random vehicle vibration tests
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Graduate Entropy question in classical physics
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Undergrad Calculating entropy for a simple scenario
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Graduate Thermodynamic Process: Is Work Conserved?
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Undergrad General Question about Dissipation of Energy
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Graduate Why is the wave equation different from the heat equation
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Graduate How Do Microstates, kT, and Entropy Interact in Statistical Mechanics?
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Undergrad Gas Distribution: Temperature, MFP & More
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Graduate How can entropy increase in a deterministic universe
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Graduate Does Laplace's demon know about entropy?
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Undergrad Where does heat energy go when dissipated in metal?
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Undergrad How do I state 2nd law of thermodynamics for an open system
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Graduate Liouville, the second law and chaos
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High School Understanding Mercury and Thermometer: The Science Behind Temperature Expansion
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Undergrad A simple question about reversible heat
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Undergrad Help Understanding Energy in General
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Graduate Boltzmann's constant validity domain
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Graduate Using Isothermally Compressed Air to Cool a Refrigerator
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Graduate The problematic 1/N in canonical partition function
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Graduate Reverse engineering potential and kinetic energy
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Undergrad How Does Temperature Affect the Drying Speed of Dishes?
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Graduate Lower kinetic temperature implies population inversion?
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Undergrad Creating a way to protect a peep inside a vacuum chamber for a demonstration
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Graduate Can Temperature Be Misleading in Energy Comparisons?
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Undergrad Why Do Volume-Temperature Curves of Ideal Gases Intersect at Absolute Zero?
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Undergrad Ideal Gas Equation: Pressure not Proportional to Moles
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Undergrad Can Temperature Changes Alter Humidity in a Completely Filled Closed System?
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Undergrad Cook a Turkey: Time Calculation Equation
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Undergrad Determining the total energy released by a compost pile
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Undergrad Determining the energy released by a flame
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High School Energy of Ideal Gas: Internal E & Kinetic E
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Graduate How can an adiabatic process decrease internal energy without transferring heat?
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Undergrad Physics of Heat Transfer in Glass Windows
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High School How to measure the area of a Clapeyron diagram (pV diagram)?
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Undergrad Why 1 liter * atm = 101.33 joules ?
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Undergrad Partition Function and Degeneracy
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Undergrad Is Hot Ice Possible Under High Pressure?
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Undergrad Heat transfer by radiation and Temperature difference
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