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Graduate Operational method of Radiation thermometers

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Graduate Intermolecular forces and boiling point

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

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Undergrad Can radiation particles contribute to heat transfer in space?

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Undergrad Conduction of heat from metal to air

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Graduate Microwave tube mechanism of heating

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

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High School Can Fire Exist Without Being Hot?

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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

  • adhominem
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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

  • RobertHutchison
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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?

  • son hong chang
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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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