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Graduate Thermal insulation in quantum computers

Mar 20, 2016 · Replies 2 · Mar 21, 2016

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Graduate Thermal-expansion coefficients, convection as function of T

Mar 20, 2016 · Replies 6 · Mar 21, 2016

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Graduate Why Energy Flows Between Temperature-Different Systems

Mar 21, 2016 · Replies 1 · Mar 21, 2016

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Undergrad Solve Evaporation Rate Questions: Pressure, Volume & More

Dec 29, 2013 · Replies 12 · Mar 21, 2016

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Undergrad Does insulation protect outdoor objects from cold

Mar 18, 2016 · Replies 4 · Mar 20, 2016

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Undergrad What is the distinction between thermal and internal energy?

Mar 20, 2016 · Replies 4 · Mar 20, 2016

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High School Cotton Insulation vs Glad Wrap Bag for solar water heater?

Mar 18, 2016 · Replies 1 · Mar 19, 2016

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Undergrad Internal energy of an ideal gas -- confusion

Mar 17, 2016 · Replies 4 · Mar 19, 2016

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Undergrad Definition of intensity in radiation

Mar 13, 2016 · Replies 7 · Mar 18, 2016

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Undergrad How endothermic reactions happen?

Mar 17, 2016 · Replies 1 · Mar 17, 2016

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Undergrad Radiation that can penetrate everything

Mar 16, 2016 · Replies 4 · Mar 17, 2016

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Graduate Could one build "thermal power lines"?

Mar 14, 2016 · Replies 14 · Mar 17, 2016

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High School CO2 Expansion: Will Temperature Fall Below 0C?

Feb 28, 2016 · Replies 34 · Mar 16, 2016

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Graduate Use of Entropy for a Control Volume in Energy Balance

Mar 12, 2016 · Replies 1 · Mar 12, 2016

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High School Is it feasible to add temperatures?

Mar 12, 2016 · Replies 3 · Mar 12, 2016

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Graduate Microwave Heating -- 2.4GHz in, IR radiation out....

Mar 11, 2016 · Replies 1 · Mar 11, 2016

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Undergrad Temperature Correction: Get Accurate Wall Surface Temperature

Mar 11, 2016 · Replies 2 · Mar 11, 2016

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Undergrad Hot liquid mixed with a cold liquid

Mar 9, 2016 · Replies 3 · Mar 9, 2016

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Undergrad Entropy vs. enthelpy in chemical reactions.

Mar 9, 2016 · Replies 1 · Mar 9, 2016

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Undergrad Measuring Fireplace Radiation: Techniques and Tools for Accurate Results

Mar 8, 2016 · Replies 2 · Mar 8, 2016

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High School Wheatstone Bridge: No Current Flow?

Mar 5, 2016 · Replies 6 · Mar 7, 2016

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High School What Causes Particle Vibration in Heated Matter?

Mar 7, 2016 · Replies 3 · Mar 7, 2016

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Undergrad Adiabatic Process, Internal Energy vs. Enthelpy.

Mar 1, 2016 · Replies 2 · Mar 7, 2016

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Undergrad How can heat change if temp is constant?

Mar 5, 2016 · Replies 2 · Mar 5, 2016

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Graduate Thermodynamic definition of volume

Mar 5, 2016 · Replies 1 · Mar 5, 2016

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Graduate Negative absolute temperatures - Comments

May 29, 2015 · Replies 6 · Mar 4, 2016

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Graduate Equilibrium liquid-gas ratio in a binary mixture

Mar 4, 2016 · Replies 1 · Mar 4, 2016

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Undergrad What is the difference between types of expansions?

Mar 2, 2016 · Replies 2 · Mar 3, 2016

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Undergrad Why boiling occurs at fix temperature?

Mar 3, 2016 · Replies 7 · Mar 3, 2016

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Graduate Efficiency of Irreversible Engine

Feb 25, 2016 · Replies 5 · Mar 2, 2016

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Undergrad Enthalpy and the Ideal Gas Law: Understanding Constant Pressure Reactions

Feb 29, 2016 · Replies 4 · Mar 1, 2016

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Undergrad Temperature change in ice water interface

Mar 1, 2016 · Replies 8 · Mar 1, 2016

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Undergrad Daytime: Solar->Ice-> Nighttime:Air conditioning

Feb 27, 2016 · Replies 6 · Feb 29, 2016

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Undergrad Entropy of a Gas Under Pressure: Does Temperature Trump Pressure?

Feb 23, 2016 · Replies 5 · Feb 26, 2016

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Undergrad Confusion about 2nd law of thermo

Feb 25, 2016 · Replies 2 · Feb 25, 2016

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Graduate Heat Equilibrium in elliptical cavities, and the second Law

Feb 16, 2016 · Replies 17 · Feb 23, 2016

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Undergrad What is meant by heat capacity at constant pressure?

Feb 22, 2016 · Replies 2 · Feb 23, 2016

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Undergrad Why wouldn't the temperatures be different in this scenario

Feb 9, 2016 · Replies 80 · Feb 23, 2016

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Graduate Does the atmosphere cool with altitude due to gravity?

Jun 21, 2015 · Replies 63 · Feb 22, 2016

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Undergrad Can a gas expand and be compressed simultaneously?

Feb 19, 2016 · Replies 3 · Feb 22, 2016

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Undergrad Blackbody Radiation: Ideal Emitters at Room Temperature

Feb 18, 2016 · Replies 10 · Feb 19, 2016

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Graduate How can energy vary in the canonical ensemble

Feb 18, 2016 · Replies 11 · Feb 19, 2016

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Undergrad Density computation for high temperature, low pressure argon

Feb 17, 2016 · Replies 5 · Feb 17, 2016

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Undergrad Heat Transfer between two temperatures

Feb 17, 2016 · Replies 4 · Feb 17, 2016

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Graduate Energy minimisation, confusion in interpretation of question

Feb 15, 2016 · Replies 2 · Feb 16, 2016

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Graduate Stat Mech, question about average of function of ith state.

Feb 15, 2016 · Replies 1 · Feb 15, 2016

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Graduate Heat transfer on a cylinder (doubt)

Feb 14, 2016 · Replies 5 · Feb 14, 2016

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Undergrad Answer: Is My Logic Correct: Reversible Processes & Heat Transfer?

Feb 14, 2016 · Replies 1 · Feb 14, 2016

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Undergrad Radiation - temperature - frequency

Feb 13, 2016 · Replies 4 · Feb 13, 2016

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High School Calculating Equations in SI Units: Boltzmann Constant & More

Feb 13, 2016 · Replies 1 · Feb 13, 2016

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Graduate Does internal potential energy affects temperature?

Feb 11, 2016 · Replies 7 · Feb 12, 2016

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Graduate How can the simplification of equation I.4 using equation I.5 be justified?

Jan 19, 2016 · Replies 3 · Feb 12, 2016

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Graduate Rubber stiffness as a function of temperature?

Feb 11, 2016 · Replies 1 · Feb 11, 2016

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Graduate Black Body Radiation and Kinetic Energy

Feb 11, 2016 · Replies 1 · Feb 11, 2016

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High School Do sound waves increase temperature?

Feb 10, 2016 · Replies 9 · Feb 11, 2016

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Undergrad In Induction Heating, what does the heat output depend on?

Feb 9, 2016 · Replies 3 · Feb 11, 2016

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Undergrad Which molecules will move faster?

Feb 10, 2016 · Replies 3 · Feb 10, 2016

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Undergrad Rate of Gaseous Diffusion into a Vacuum

Feb 10, 2016 · Replies 3 · Feb 10, 2016

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Undergrad How does heat loss through conduction occur?

Feb 9, 2016 · Replies 6 · Feb 10, 2016

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Undergrad Question on Super Heated Water

Feb 9, 2016 · Replies 5 · Feb 10, 2016

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Graduate Steam's Effect on Wood: A Gedanken Experiment

Feb 8, 2016 · Replies 2 · Feb 8, 2016

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Undergrad Conceptual explanation for ΔS=Q/T

Feb 8, 2016 · Replies 1 · Feb 8, 2016

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Graduate Is the Moon responsible for reducing Earth's entropy and making life possible?

Feb 8, 2016 · Replies 1 · Feb 8, 2016

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Graduate Temperature for "melting" vibrational degrees of freedom

Feb 7, 2016 · Replies 3 · Feb 7, 2016

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Undergrad What is Enthelpy Conceptually?

Feb 6, 2016 · Replies 3 · Feb 6, 2016

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Graduate Basic problem in equilibrium thermodynamics

Jan 14, 2016 · Replies 2 · Feb 6, 2016

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Undergrad What temperature actually means?

Apr 18, 2015 · Replies 11 · Feb 5, 2016

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Graduate Steam Condensation: Calculating Area for Experiment

Feb 2, 2016 · Replies 5 · Feb 5, 2016

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Graduate Can a hair dryer burn? Thermodynamic considerations....

Feb 4, 2016 · Replies 7 · Feb 4, 2016

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Graduate Converting kW/h to kWh for Optimizing Fuel Cell Ramp-Up

Feb 4, 2016 · Replies 11 · Feb 4, 2016

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Undergrad Convection: Realising a Trivial Thing?

Feb 3, 2016 · Replies 5 · Feb 3, 2016

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Undergrad Max Heat Output of a Frenette Heater

Feb 3, 2016 · Replies 1 · Feb 3, 2016

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Undergrad Position of a train engine (Locomotive)

Feb 3, 2016 · Replies 6 · Feb 3, 2016

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High School Where does the emf radiation from an elliptical come from?

Feb 2, 2016 · Replies 10 · Feb 2, 2016

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Undergrad Please help me with this doubt about radiant heat transfer

Feb 1, 2016 · Replies 10 · Feb 2, 2016

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Undergrad Adiabatic or Isothermal? Compressed air energy storage

Jan 31, 2016 · Replies 6 · Jan 31, 2016

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High School Trying to understand convective heat transfer rate

Jan 29, 2016 · Replies 3 · Jan 30, 2016

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Graduate How is internal energy U(S,V) a function of temperature?

Jan 28, 2016 · Replies 4 · Jan 29, 2016

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Graduate Confusion about [itex]T[/itex] in the definition of entropy

Jan 28, 2016 · Replies 3 · Jan 29, 2016

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Undergrad Calculating the volume in closed container?

Jan 28, 2016 · Replies 6 · Jan 28, 2016

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Undergrad Why did my glass bottle explode?

Jan 28, 2016 · Replies 1 · Jan 28, 2016

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Undergrad Is it possible to construct a thermally isolated system?

Jan 28, 2016 · Replies 1 · Jan 28, 2016

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Graduate Confusion on entropy change calculations for irreversible process

Feb 10, 2015 · Replies 41 · Jan 28, 2016

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Undergrad Sign Convention for Work (In Thermodynamics)

Jan 25, 2016 · Replies 13 · Jan 27, 2016

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Undergrad An atomic explanation of Newton's Third Law of Motion

Jan 25, 2016 · Replies 20 · Jan 26, 2016

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Graduate Ground-based Laser + Liquid Nitrogen Rocket Engine?

May 11, 2015 · Replies 9 · Jan 26, 2016

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Graduate Material for superheated water

Jan 26, 2016 · Replies 6 · Jan 26, 2016

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Undergrad Building a Vacuum Kiln: The Challenge of Applying Heat to Wood

Jan 23, 2016 · Replies 2 · Jan 23, 2016

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High School Is temperature directly linked to movement?

Jan 21, 2016 · Replies 2 · Jan 21, 2016

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Undergrad Why do gases become more soluble at lower temperatures?

Jan 21, 2016 · Replies 5 · Jan 21, 2016

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Graduate Calculus in Physics: Internal Energy Explained

Jan 20, 2016 · Replies 8 · Jan 20, 2016

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Undergrad Energy needed to launch a spaceship into Space

Jan 20, 2016 · Replies 4 · Jan 20, 2016

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Graduate Operational method of Radiation thermometers

Jan 20, 2016 · Replies 4 · Jan 20, 2016

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Graduate Intermolecular forces and boiling point

Jan 19, 2016 · Replies 2 · Jan 19, 2016

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Undergrad How Does Atmospheric Pressure Affect Measurements in a Torricelli Barometer?

Jan 19, 2016 · Replies 6 · Jan 19, 2016

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Undergrad Can radiation particles contribute to heat transfer in space?

Jan 18, 2016 · Replies 4 · Jan 18, 2016

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Undergrad Conduction of heat from metal to air

Jan 16, 2016 · Replies 9 · Jan 18, 2016

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Graduate Microwave tube mechanism of heating

Jan 6, 2016 · Replies 6 · Jan 18, 2016

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Undergrad Best Material to conduct thermal heat from water at 50 degrees celsius

May 17, 2014 · Replies 3 · Jan 18, 2016

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High School Can Fire Exist Without Being Hot?

Jan 15, 2016 · Replies 8 · Jan 17, 2016

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