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Graduate Example of entropy as function of temperature only
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Graduate Why define entropy with heat instead of work?
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Graduate Finding the entropy from the heat capacity
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Undergrad Maximizing Heat Output from Electrical Energy: Heat Pumps vs Heaters
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High School Newton's second law and how to calculate the force on the mo
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Undergrad First Law of Thermodynamics and Melting-Ice Scenario?
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Graduate State postulate for incompressible substance
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High School What's the thermal energy of a helium atom?
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Undergrad Water temperature calculation of glass facade
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Undergrad Carnot Cycle Use: Understand When to Apply
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High School Temperature in Vacuum: Is it Zero or Undefined?
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Undergrad Does the shape of a container affect the heat required to melt ice inside it?
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High School Can Metals Evaporate? Boiling Point Explained
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Undergrad Is "energetics" the same as "thermodynamics"?
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Graduate Does Data in Informatics TRULY Have Temperature?
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High School Is there/what is the unit of cooling?
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High School On what does temperature depend ?
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Undergrad Calculating BTU for Heating a Garage from 40 to 60°F in 4 Hours
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Undergrad Can I get description of how heat is realized during fire?
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Graduate Question about cooling due to expansion of compressed air
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Graduate Relationship between Temperature and Mean Translational Kinetic Energy
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Graduate Why is the logarithm of the number of all possible states of
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Graduate When is path-independent heat a useful idea?
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Undergrad Time needed for ice in an ocean to melt
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Undergrad Correct mathematical notation for Volumetric Heat Capacity
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Graduate Specific Heat Capacity for Gas
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Undergrad How does temperature affect distillation in a fractionating column?
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Undergrad Calculating Fire Temperature from Thermal Energy
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Graduate Nozzle/Diffuser equation for compressible flow
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Graduate Molar Specific Heat (gas) at varying pressure and volume?
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Graduate Is dn = dS = 0 when two phases are equilibrium?
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Graduate Possible violation of the Kelvin statement (2nd law)?
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Building a Definition for Heat - Comments
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Undergrad Mixing two different liquids at different temperatures
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Undergrad Effect of Temperature on Chemical Equilibrium
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Undergrad Why Do Nails Change Color with Temperature?
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Undergrad Thermodynamics, saturated Pressure and temperature
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Graduate EM radiation appearing to travel faster than C
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Undergrad Why does the temperature is invariant on phase transitions?
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Undergrad Code water thermodynamic properties (enthelpy)
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Graduate How to heat a plasma to 10^8 degrees Celsius
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Undergrad Greenhouse effect and Earth's surface temperature
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Undergrad Entropy & Enthalpy Analogy: Understand Easily
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Graduate Would an Eternal Universe Violate the Second Law of Thermo?
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Graduate Internal energy + entropy for molecule
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Undergrad Converting PV Diagrams to TS Diagrams in Thermodynamics
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Graduate Why is Entropy Always Increasing in Closed Systems?
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Graduate Does Entropy Change Consider Irreversibility in Solids and Liquids?
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Graduate Where does entropy generation come from?
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Graduate Heat Rejection process of Carnot Refrigeration
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Graduate Optimizing Gas Flow in Capillaries: Calculating Flow Rates in Gas Chromatography
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Graduate How Does Gravity Influence Entropy in the Formation of Proto-Stars?
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High School Temperature & Wind Chill: Why Does It Feel Colder?
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Undergrad How Thick Should My Thermal Barrier Be to Protect Against Heat?
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Undergrad What are microstates and macrostates in statistical physics?
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Graduate Approximations behind Clausius-Clapeyron....
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Undergrad Understanding the use of a figure in thermodynamics.
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Graduate Calculate Heating Time of Object with Radiation
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Graduate Fourier's Law of Heat Conduction
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High School Heat sealed glass jar with water- will it break?
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Graduate Calculating entropy generation of a process
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Graduate Thermodynamics (work done by unrestrained gas expansion)
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Graduate Time taken for pressurized tank to fill another chamber?
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Graduate Gravity waves and gravitational radiation
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Undergrad Calculating Heat Transfer Through Sandwich Materials
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High School Sun's Heat to Earth: Explained
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Graduate What is enthelpy of a system, Macroscopic thermodynamics.
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Undergrad Why is Hot Air Lighter than Cold Air?
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Undergrad How to overcome heating due to friction
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Undergrad Energy lost by EM radiation per cm in air?
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Undergrad Help with thermodynamics -- work of Carnot engine expansion
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Undergrad Why Can't We Build a Heat Engine from Ice Expansion?
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Graduate Clarification on derivations of specific heats in fluids
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Graduate Confusion With Blackbody Radiation
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Undergrad What is the effect of heat on the inertial mass of a body?
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Graduate Thermodynamics of hyperelastic solid
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Undergrad Time for a steel die to reach temperature
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Undergrad Surface type and emission/absorption
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Graduate Nusselt Number for Flat Plate: Laminar vs Turbulent
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Undergrad Boiling point of water heated via microwave
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Undergrad How Can I Test the Cooling Capacity of My Liquid Cooler?
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High School Question on Newton's first law
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Graduate Problems solvable by thermodynamics of information
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Graduate Boltzmann distribution derivation.
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Undergrad The change in entropy in adiabatic process
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High School Trouble with Newton's Third Law and motion
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Undergrad Thermodynamics -- Free expansion of gas
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Graduate Does the Exposed Copper Affect the Temperature of the Center of a Heatsink?
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High School How does temperature affect viscosity of a liquid?
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Undergrad Linear Thermal Expansion of a Meter Stick
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Graduate Understanding Carnot Efficiency
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Graduate CFD Thermodynamics flow in Angular momentum system
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Undergrad Heat transfer & sound transfer
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Undergrad Does a flame mantle get "wetted"?
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Graduate Vacuum Chamber Demo: Investigating Temperature & Humidity Changes
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Graduate Relative strength of E and B fields in EM radiation
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Undergrad I'm not getting what Kepler's Third Law is about
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Undergrad Friction Coefficient Calculation for Racquet Grip Design
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Graduate Using a hot gas to drive a piston: entropy reduction?
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Undergrad Rate of Evaporation: Experiment Ideas & Thoughts
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