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Undergrad Understanding Combustion Energy: Types, Distribution, and Details
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Undergrad What Are the Best Methods for Harvesting Thermal Energy and Their Efficiency?
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Graduate Understanding the Relationship between Entropy and Temperature
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Undergrad Why is the molar specific heat of carbon so different from the predicted value?
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Graduate Is Matter Just Frozen Radiation from the Big Bang?
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High School An amateur question on Radiation and Absorption of radiative energy
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Graduate Thermal energy intensity per unit volume
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Undergrad Newton's third law in relation to field forces
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Undergrad Black/white radiator vs white/black wall: radiation
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Undergrad Do objects reflect light and emit radiation simultaneously?
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Undergrad Confused about the Carnot engine?
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Graduate What is the effect of scaling down a heat exchanger?
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Graduate Mass flow rate for compressible flow
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Graduate Thermodynamics thought experiment
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Graduate Is Carnot engine the only reversible engine?
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Graduate How to use the first law of thermodynamics for simple mechanical problems
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High School Understanding the Constant Temperature of Phase Transitions
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Undergrad Molar heat capacity at constant volume
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Undergrad How to Calculate Exhaust Flow Rates Using Known Variables?
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Graduate What is the relationship between particle size and acoustic radiation force?
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Graduate Unsustainable DNA molecule when unfolded to be in a line
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Graduate Heat Equation for Cylinder Wire Problem
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Graduate G - Can Macroscopic Vibration Create Sensations of Heat on a Planar Surface?
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Undergrad Are "isentropic" and "adiabatic" same?
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High School Thermal Expansion of aluminium
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Undergrad Thermodynamics heat loss fridge
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Graduate Which gas model to use for dry air and N2 at 300 bar
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Graduate Why is there a factor 2 in entropy development
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High School Newton's third law and a horse
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Graduate Thermodynamics: ideal gas chemical potential
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Undergrad Settling the Debate: Air Compressors & Koi Ponds
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Graduate Modeling of moist-adiabatic temperature?
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Undergrad Pressure and temperature where volume is constant
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Graduate Deducind thermodynamics from Quantum Physics and S>k
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Graduate Thermodynamic temperature derivation
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Graduate Thermal conductivity and heat capacity
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Undergrad Need Help Designing Speaker Enclosure/Engineering
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Graduate Temperature, Kinetic Energy, Boltzmann Factors, and SHO
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Undergrad Making sense of the units of entropy: J/K
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Undergrad Thermodynamics and daily life
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Undergrad Laws of thermodynamics compared with life.
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High School Thermal Equilibrium: Why Does Car Get Hotter Inside?
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Graduate Internal Energy & Ideal Gas: Is dH=Cp dT Always?
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Undergrad Derivation of Bernoulli's equation via Newton's second law
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Graduate Why is P_ext different for reversible and irreversible isothermal expansion?
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Undergrad How much heat energy in molten glass?
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Undergrad Adiabatic Lapse Rate Explained: Work, Energy, & Temperature
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Graduate T-S Carnot Cycle for Photon Gas
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Undergrad Thermodynamics question about density
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Graduate Randomness in time reversal case
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High School Is Heat Considered a Force in Energy Transfer?
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Undergrad What is the Physics of this Obervation?
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Graduate Stuck on the derivation of pV^gamma=c
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High School Principles of warming and cooling
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Undergrad Why are isothermal process values higher than adiabatic ones?
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Graduate Tidal forces and thermodynamics
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Undergrad Entropy as number of microstates
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Graduate Overunity Questions: Is Energy Added in Space?
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Graduate Steady state heat conduction into a very large solid
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Undergrad Where does energy go during phase transitions?
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High School Heat the core of an object or a specific point inside the object?
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Graduate Grand Canonical Partition function
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High School Why Does a Bomb Blast Create a Mushroom Cloud and Then a Ring of Smoke?
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Undergrad How can I calculate the volume of leaked gas in a leak testing project?
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Graduate Meaning of the Partition function
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Graduate Thermodynamics and conservation of energy
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Undergrad Linear coefficient of thermal expansion
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Undergrad Newton's second law for rotation, when does it apply?
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High School Speed of Sound in Air as a Function of Temperature
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Graduate Heat transfer coefficient and ζ
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Graduate Temperature varying in vacuum chamber during pressure adjust
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Undergrad Math used in this equation rearrangement?
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Undergrad What factors determine the energy storage capacity of compressed gases?
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Graduate Physical significance of temperature
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High School Does heat transfer cause molecules to cool down?
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Graduate Understanding the Energy Modes of Springs in a Solid
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High School Any toxic fumes from heated copper?
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Undergrad How does heating a gas in a vessel with a piston affect the pressure inside?
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Undergrad Newton's Third Law and the Horse Cart Problem
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Undergrad What is an Irreversible Adiabatic Process?
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Graduate Book on Chemical Thermodynamics
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Undergrad Newton's third law and attraction
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High School Absorbed energy from the sun, where does it end up?
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Undergrad The relationship between temperature and pressure for water?
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Undergrad Calculating the Maximum Safe Volume of Ethanol in a Confined Space
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Undergrad Newton's First Law: Movement in Space Without Friction
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Undergrad Temperature of gas and solid in thermal equilibrium
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Graduate Questions Regarding the Phase Diagram
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Undergrad Entropy: Joules per Kelvin Explained
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Undergrad What Would Happen in a Vacuum Chamber?
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Graduate Heat engine efficiency could approach 100%?
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Undergrad Question about Newton third law and NASA article
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Graduate The temptation to defeat thermodynamics
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Undergrad Will an object decrease in temperature in a perfect vacuum?
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Graduate Blackbody emission in 2D coordinates
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High School Opposing forces and Newton's third law
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Undergrad KT of Gases and static equilibrium
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Undergrad Newton's First law and KT of Gases
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Undergrad Relatioship between density and thermal conductivity
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Undergrad Dark body vs light body and heat emission
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