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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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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?

  • iScience
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High School Heat transfer by infrared radiation (the very basics)

  • Cliff Hanley
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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

  • Soumalya
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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?

  • sophiecentaur
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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?

  • iScience
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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?

  • Cliff Hanley
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Undergrad Standard Temperature Notation for Phase Change

  • CWatters
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High School How Does Temperature Relate to Thermal Energy and Kinetic Energy?

  • Cliff Hanley
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High School Q. What is the main method of heat transfer in solids?

  • Cliff Hanley
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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....

  • Nantes
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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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