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High School Struggle to understand adiabatic process

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Undergrad Carnot Efficiency: Qh/Ql=Th/Tl Explained

  • John Pang
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Graduate Negative absolute temperatures

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Undergrad Jansky for blackbody radiation

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Graduate Gases that absorb IR radiation

  • Eric Markiewicz
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Undergrad Getting Constant Cooling: Examining Heat Leakage

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Graduate Is Dropping a Metal Block into a Lake a Reversible Process in Thermodynamics?

  • Sum Guy
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Undergrad Ionising radiation and light bulbs

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Graduate Thermal insulation in quantum computers

  • matteolegna
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Graduate Thermal-expansion coefficients, convection as function of T

  • Jerry Friedman
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Graduate Why Energy Flows Between Temperature-Different Systems

  • John Pang
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Undergrad Solve Evaporation Rate Questions: Pressure, Volume & More

  • mfg88
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Undergrad Does insulation protect outdoor objects from cold

  • Ittiandro
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Undergrad What is the distinction between thermal and internal energy?

  • TT0
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High School Cotton Insulation vs Glad Wrap Bag for solar water heater?

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Undergrad Internal energy of an ideal gas -- confusion

  • misko
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Undergrad Definition of intensity in radiation

  • TT0
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Undergrad How endothermic reactions happen?

  • Tahmeed
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Undergrad Radiation that can penetrate everything

  • Mohd Abdullah
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Graduate Could one build "thermal power lines"?

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

  • rancam
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Graduate Use of Entropy for a Control Volume in Energy Balance

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High School Is it feasible to add temperatures?

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

  • Anand Sivaram
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Undergrad Temperature Correction: Get Accurate Wall Surface Temperature

  • Minka Aduse-Poku
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Undergrad Hot liquid mixed with a cold liquid

  • Elena14
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Undergrad Entropy vs. enthelpy in chemical reactions.

  • sghan
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Undergrad Measuring Fireplace Radiation: Techniques and Tools for Accurate Results

  • naturallylearn
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High School Wheatstone Bridge: No Current Flow?

  • Faris Shajahan
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High School What Causes Particle Vibration in Heated Matter?

  • Aman Trivedi
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Undergrad Adiabatic Process, Internal Energy vs. Enthelpy.

  • Jeremy1789
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Undergrad How can heat change if temp is constant?

  • toesockshoe
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Graduate Thermodynamic definition of volume

  • pigna
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Graduate Negative absolute temperatures - Comments

  • ShayanJ
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Graduate Equilibrium liquid-gas ratio in a binary mixture

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Undergrad What is the difference between types of expansions?

  • Gopal Mailpalli
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Undergrad Why boiling occurs at fix temperature?

  • Arvind22
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Graduate Efficiency of Irreversible Engine

  • Arvind22
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Undergrad Enthalpy and the Ideal Gas Law: Understanding Constant Pressure Reactions

  • Zopiclone
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Undergrad Temperature change in ice water interface

  • Elena14
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Undergrad Daytime: Solar->Ice-> Nighttime:Air conditioning

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

  • rancam
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Undergrad Confusion about 2nd law of thermo

  • nate9519
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Graduate Heat Equilibrium in elliptical cavities, and the second Law

  • jfizzix
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Undergrad What is meant by heat capacity at constant pressure?

  • Fermion70
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Undergrad Why wouldn't the temperatures be different in this scenario

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Graduate Does the atmosphere cool with altitude due to gravity?

  • kyle Bacon
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Undergrad Can a gas expand and be compressed simultaneously?

  • rancam
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Undergrad Blackbody Radiation: Ideal Emitters at Room Temperature

  • gentsagree
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Graduate How can energy vary in the canonical ensemble

  • muzialis
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Undergrad Density computation for high temperature, low pressure argon

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Undergrad Heat Transfer between two temperatures

  • ShimaParty
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Graduate Energy minimisation, confusion in interpretation of question

  • Dazed&Confused
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Graduate Stat Mech, question about average of function of ith state.

  • Zacarias Nason
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Graduate Heat transfer on a cylinder (doubt)

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

  • Rohit93
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Undergrad Radiation - temperature - frequency

  • member 342489
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High School Calculating Equations in SI Units: Boltzmann Constant & More

  • Amany Gouda
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Graduate Does internal potential energy affects temperature?

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

  • Aniket1
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Graduate Rubber stiffness as a function of temperature?

  • JJD
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Graduate Black Body Radiation and Kinetic Energy

  • Ontophobe
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High School Do sound waves increase temperature?

  • omega-centauri
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Undergrad In Induction Heating, what does the heat output depend on?

  • Zensation
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Undergrad Which molecules will move faster?

  • holydog23
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Undergrad Rate of Gaseous Diffusion into a Vacuum

  • RandyP
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Undergrad How does heat loss through conduction occur?

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Undergrad Question on Super Heated Water

  • irobot2020
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Graduate Steam's Effect on Wood: A Gedanken Experiment

  • vin300
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Undergrad Conceptual explanation for ΔS=Q/T

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

  • zawy
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Graduate Temperature for "melting" vibrational degrees of freedom

  • RingNebula57
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Undergrad What is Enthelpy Conceptually?

  • Cole
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Graduate Basic problem in equilibrium thermodynamics

  • kini.Amith
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Undergrad What temperature actually means?

  • kelvin490
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Graduate Steam Condensation: Calculating Area for Experiment

  • Gary K
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Graduate Can a hair dryer burn? Thermodynamic considerations....

  • Merlin05
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Graduate Converting kW/h to kWh for Optimizing Fuel Cell Ramp-Up

  • Ornella
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Undergrad Convection: Realising a Trivial Thing?

  • vin300
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Undergrad Max Heat Output of a Frenette Heater

  • Rahul Manavalan
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Undergrad Position of a train engine (Locomotive)

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

  • fangrz
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Undergrad Please help me with this doubt about radiant heat transfer

  • ajaysabarish
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Undergrad Adiabatic or Isothermal? Compressed air energy storage

  • AEGIS
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High School Trying to understand convective heat transfer rate

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

  • kostikas2002
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Graduate Confusion about [itex]T[/itex] in the definition of entropy

  • Dazed&Confused
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Undergrad Calculating the volume in closed container?

  • takgt7
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Undergrad Why did my glass bottle explode?

  • Watari
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Undergrad Is it possible to construct a thermally isolated system?

  • iScience
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Graduate Confusion on entropy change calculations for irreversible process

  • Shan K
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Undergrad Sign Convention for Work (In Thermodynamics)

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

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Graduate Ground-based Laser + Liquid Nitrogen Rocket Engine?

  • David Morgan
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Graduate Material for superheated water

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

  • Jupiter'sTwin
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High School Is temperature directly linked to movement?

  • Abtinnn
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Undergrad Why do gases become more soluble at lower temperatures?

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Graduate Calculus in Physics: Internal Energy Explained

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Undergrad Energy needed to launch a spaceship into Space

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