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Graduate Is Temperature Truly Quantized at Absolute Zero?
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Undergrad Rubber Heat Resistance: Finding the Right Material
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High School Newton's Third Law: Equal Forces & Stationary Object?
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Graduate Entropy change is intrinsically positive
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Undergrad Reduce the volume of a gas.How much heat, how much pressure?
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High School What Happens to Photon Energy When Light is Turned Off?
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Graduate Understanding Blackbody Radiation in Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate Stability of radiative heat transfer
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Graduate Isothermal Compressibility of Photon Gas
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Graduate Does the heat capacity change for a metallic system?
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Undergrad Infrared LED array for heating?
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Undergrad Learning the Carnot Cycle: 4 Steps Explained
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Graduate Difference between IR and heat
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Undergrad Thermal energy distribution of an object?
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High School Heat transfer by infrared radiation (the very basics)
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Undergrad Delta T in Calorimetry always positive?
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High School Mini heat element Construction
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Undergrad Does Combustion Create a Vacuum?
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Undergrad Compression due to temperature rise vs volume reduction
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Undergrad What Is the Logic Behind Adding Pressure in the Derivation of PV=nRT?
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High School Unraveling the Mystery of Heat: What is it and How Does it Transfer?
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Undergrad Formation of bonds and heat release
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Undergrad O Physics: Bose-Einstein Condensates and Laser Cooling
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High School Why does ice grow in the freezer rather than evaporate?
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Undergrad Can Heat Engine Efficiency Be Related to Temperature?
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Undergrad Equilibrium temperature of three different substances
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Graduate What Causes Temperature Gradient at y=0 in Convective Heat Transfer?
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Graduate Adiabatic Saturation Process of Moist Air
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Undergrad Heating water with a wind turbine
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Undergrad Why isn't a molecule's kinectic energy dependant on mass?
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High School What Is the Name of the Phenomenon Where Hot Water Freezes Faster Than Cold?
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Undergrad Heat Transfer and Heat added to a system
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Graduate How is isobaric process physically possible?
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Graduate Application of Gas Law at super-low volume
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Undergrad Entropy: The Mystery Behind ∫dQ/T
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Undergrad Why does an oscillatory system have a lower bound in energy?
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Undergrad What would happen if an object of 689 degrees was in a room
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Graduate Heat transfer through finite temperature difference
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Graduate Understanding the Carnot cycle
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Graduate Calculating nozzle shape for melting hot glue
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High School Greenhouse Effect and Pets in Automobiles
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Undergrad Calculating Thermal Expansion of Water: Is the Formula Correct?
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Graduate Greenhouse effect affected by Earths Gravity?
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Undergrad Is radiation pressure a thing?
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Graduate What causes temperature changes in Joule's expansion experiment?
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Graduate Dynamical systems and thermodynamics
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Graduate Psychrometrics - Pure Humidification Process
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High School Why do people worry so much about microwave radiation?
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Undergrad Does Downloading Books Decrease Entropy in Kindle?
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Graduate Is a Process with Infinite Time and Finite Gradient Reversible or Irreversible?
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Undergrad How Can We Efficiently Recycle Low-Quality Waste Energy?
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Undergrad Which is the best fan for my wood burning stove: Peltier or Stirling?
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Undergrad Work of isothermal compression at constant pressure
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Undergrad Langley's Bolometer: 19th Century Tech & Its Uses
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Undergrad Irreversible vs Reversible process
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Graduate Variation of system energy in Canonical Ensemble
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Graduate Radiation to a small object from surroundings
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Undergrad Dimensional Analysis? Involving Temperature
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Undergrad Change in temperature determine the viscosity of honey
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Graduate Adiabiatic Process: q=0 & Work Done Path Function?
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Undergrad Calculating Heat of Object in Re-Entry: Kelvin °
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Graduate T-dependence of heat of vaporization near critical point
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Insights Explosion-Generated Collapsing Vacuum Bubbles Reach 20K Kelvin - Comments
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High School Will a metal vacuum mug beat a cooler bar with 300mL Ice?
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Undergrad Thermodynamics: why is freon a "good" coolant?
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Graduate Heat generation of phosphor layer in white LED
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Graduate Development of Clausius Inequality
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Undergrad Wish to understand the Venturi Effect WRT cooling
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High School What Is It Called When Energy Moves Between Objects Without Changing Form?
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Undergrad Standard Temperature Notation for Phase Change
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High School How Does Temperature Relate to Thermal Energy and Kinetic Energy?
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High School Q. What is the main method of heat transfer in solids?
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High School What happens if we heat up the plasma enough?
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Undergrad How can i measure the plasma temperature
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High School Specific heat capacity (the very basics)
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High School Answer 1 BTU for 1°F Change in 1 lb of Water
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Graduate Supercooled water - latent heat of fusion
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Undergrad How room temperature will change in 1 hour
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Graduate Deducing Kepler's second law from Newton's laws?
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High School If the air temperature were the same as the human body's....
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Graduate Specific Heat and Helmholtz Free Energy?
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Graduate How Probable is the Most Probable Distribution in Statistical Mechanics?
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Graduate Gas or liquid to adsorb an explosion
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High School Light absorbtion and change in temperature of liquids
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Graduate Extracting Ambient Thermal Energy Without Gradients
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Graduate COP of Reversible Refrigeration Cycles
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Undergrad Swimming pool heating problem
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Graduate How does Hawking Radiation work?
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Graduate Reversible cycle approximated by Carnot cycles
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Graduate Heating of liquid when pressure 1bar-->5000bars
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High School AA Batteries heating up during severe hail storm.
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High School How long does it take to get heat? (thermodynamics )
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Graduate Thermodynamics Entropy state function?
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Graduate Heat, Pressure and Equilbrium in two separate systems
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Graduate Thermal efficiency: reversible and irreversible machines
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Graduate Interpreting Kinetic Temperature for Solids / Liquids
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Undergrad Difficulty of the Physics Series courses for Science/Enginee
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Graduate Idea for black body source
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Undergrad Temperature increase in a fixed volume when adding mass
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Undergrad Why are higher energy flames blue?
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