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Graduate Thermal Physics: Cooling by both Conduction & Convection

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High School Energy for heating the air to a specific temperature

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Undergrad Heating a Nichrome wire around a glass tube

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High School What to use when equations require mass but given a volume ?

  • CannonSLX
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Graduate Temperature of a gas in a container

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Graduate How much an unsealed piston will compress air

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High School (simple) Applying constant force - Newton's first Law

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Graduate Using Laminar Flow to measure Thermal Conductivity

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Graduate Explain convection heat transfer using kinetic theory

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Undergrad Gas consumption vs oven temperature setting point

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Undergrad A question about heat transfer in our atmosphere

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Undergrad Engineering Economics - Practice Problems

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Graduate Angular distribution of radiation in relativistic limit

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Undergrad Compare Energy Consumption for different phases of a system

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High School Reason for: Temperature is proportional to atomic motio

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Graduate Solar Still: Factors to Consider

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Undergrad Heating water passing trough an 14mm SS pipe

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Graduate What Happens to Closed-Cell Foam at Cryogenic Temperatures?

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Graduate Do humans increase Entropy at a faster rate?

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High School What is the Difference Between Color Temperature and Actual Temperature?

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Undergrad AM Radio signal IS sounding from my wall heater

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Graduate I really do not understand entropy - entropy increases wrt T

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Undergrad What is Entropy? Understanding the Measurement

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Undergrad Determination of specific heat in a reaction

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Graduate What Makes the Carnot Cycle the Most Efficient?

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Graduate Calculating temp change releasing a compressed gas

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Undergrad How temperature affects relative humidity

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Graduate Entropy -- prove it increases for irreversible process

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Undergrad Can I Control Wire Temperature Using Ampere Load?

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Undergrad What happens when an element is heated?

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Undergrad Impulse Engine (Drive) ....a stupid question?

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High School How do we measure the thermal energy of an object?

  • Mr Davis 97
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Undergrad Peltier cooler- thermodynamics

  • MadaraUchiha
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Graduate Modeling technique for Joule heating

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Graduate Apparent violation of kirchoff's law of thermal radiation

  • Sunny Singh
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High School Understanding Energy Loss to Heat and Friction in Bouncing Objects

  • member 529879
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Undergrad Thermodynamics heating water from a copper tube

  • only1db
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Undergrad Is it possible to achieve absolute zero?

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Undergrad How a microwave seems to heat oil just as well as water

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Graduate Joule's Expansion & Entropy Production

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High School Calculate Heat Produced by 12V 50W Halogen Lamp

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Graduate A heating element in a container with low pressure gas?

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Graduate Compressibility factor and van der Waals equation for temp

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Graduate Can Delta U for Water Systems in Contact Be Equal and Opposite?

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Graduate How Safe Is The Constant Pressure Assumption For Enthelpy?

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Undergrad Interplay of saturation temperature and pressure

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Graduate The difference between heat and work?

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High School Is there any derivation of Newton's second law?

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High School Solve Combined Gas Law: National 5 Physics Exam Help

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High School Kelvin Scale Accuracy: Why 1K = 1°C?

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Graduate Maximum Entropy Information System

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Undergrad Does a Perfect Thermos Continue Cooking Food Like a Traditional Heat Source?

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Graduate Spaceship propelled by Stefan's law of heat radiation?

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High School Do black objects get hotter than white objects in the sun?

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High School Understanding the Sun's Role in Warming the Earth

  • Mohan Nivas
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Undergrad Temperature as a measure of thermal energy

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Undergrad Maximizing Pool Heating: Comparing Flow Rates for Efficient Heat Transfer

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Graduate Heat transfer of a hot plastic thread in a cold water bath

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Undergrad Temperature and Average kinetic energy of moleces

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Graduate Water anomaly -- Heat capacities

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Graduate Thermodynamics of gas in very strong gravitational field.

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Undergrad Trouble with definition of Newton's First Law

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Graduate Question about derivations of thermodynamic properties

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Undergrad "Attraction Force x Energy Accumulation" clarification

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Graduate Two (sorta meta) questions related to entropy

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High School Calculate Radiation Intensity of Cell Phone 2in Away

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Undergrad Ideal Gas Law - Adding additional gas & additional question

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High School Why Hot Air Rises and Cold Air Sinks: Understanding Air Density

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Graduate Interesting Heat Diffusion Problem

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Graduate Why isn't the nature of the container mentioned in thermo?

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Undergrad Gas confusion -- cooling air in a pipe using venturis and mixing

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Undergrad How is enthelpy not directily measurable?

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Undergrad The Mystery Behind Atoms Vibrating & Sound Creation

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Graduate Contribution of the air in the jet aircraft engine

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Graduate Is there a specific field for studying energy transport and conversion?

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Undergrad Temperature and Pitch question

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Undergrad Keplar's First Law: Explaining Orbit and Eccentricity

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Graduate Helmholtz free energy in the canonical ensemble

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Graduate Entropy State Variable: Thermal Equilibrium Questions

  • TomWhite87
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Undergrad Ethanol gasoline blends - reality vs science

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Undergrad The efficiency of a Carnot engine

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Undergrad Calculating Iceberg Melting Rate

  • marawan
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Graduate Harness energy from temperature difference between Earth and space

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High School Engineering Books: Find Best Resources for Learning

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Undergrad Optimize Apple Juice Coldness w/ Minimal Added Water

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Undergrad How to calulate heat transfer though multiple layers?

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High School How does an object maintain constant velocity according to Newton's First Law?

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Graduate Spectrum of a Gas from Thermal Motion

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Graduate How to Determine ΔU in Expanding Systems with Changing Pressure?

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Graduate Thermofluids, bernoullis equation head loss

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Undergrad Thermal Radiation: Measurement & Conversion Help

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Graduate Memory, Entropy and the Arrow of Time

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High School What happens when air is heated up?

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Undergrad How Much Energy is Dissipated When Braking from 75 to 55 mph?

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High School When will the hot cup of tea cool faster?

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Graduate Does the entropy of the universe as a whole change?

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Undergrad Thermodynamics: sign convention

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Undergrad Thermodynamics. Irreversible and reversible Process

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High School Hydrogen and it's Specific Heat.

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Graduate Max Wire Temp: Calculating Equilibrium

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