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Undergrad Does the work done by friction include the energy lost as heat in a system?
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Graduate Fugacity coefficient of an ideal solution
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Graduate Mysterious boiling phenomenon during experiment
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Undergrad What is the relationship between gravity and energy?
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Undergrad Can Condensation Occur in a Vacuum-Sealed Container?
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Undergrad How does CO2 convert infrared radiation to heat
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High School UV Radiation: Why Can't Human Eyes See It?
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High School Solar Water Heater: How It Works & Energy Transfers
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High School When should I add ice to hot water for the lowest final temperature?
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Undergrad Bubble in Liquid: Phase Change Under Pressure?
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Undergrad Optimizing DIY Air-to-Air Counterflow Heat Exchanger Size with Experimental Data
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Undergrad Will Mixing Hot Air and Steam in a Sealed Cylinder Change Pressure?
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Undergrad Latent Heat of Fusion & Internal Energy
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Graduate Reversibility/quasistatic and the first law
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Graduate Is nuclear fusion reverse entropy?
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Undergrad Why is a neutron ionizing radiation?
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Graduate Deriving the Combined Gas Law
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Undergrad How Do Heating and Pressure Influence Distillation Separation?
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Graduate Is it possible to create order from disorder in a thermodynamic system?
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Graduate Difference between the absolute thermodynamic temperature scale and ITS-90
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High School Raise Water Temperature 20kcal - How to Calculate?
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Undergrad Wind Speed & Heat: Is There a Constant?
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What Should I Look For In A Thermal Cycler?
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Undergrad Do Identical Cans with Different Colors Reach the Same Water Temperature?
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High School How long does it take air to heat up water?
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Graduate Thermodynamic Properties: Why We Need Them & How to Calculate
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Graduate Gibbs phase rule at critical point
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Graduate Questions Regarding Effect of Nucleation in Phase Change
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Undergrad Ammonia Gas: Vapor Pressure > Atmospheric Pressure
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Undergrad The physics behind the Dew Point phase shift
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Undergrad The first law of thermodynamics and the dry adiabatic lapse rate
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Undergrad Why do bodies attract each other?
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Graduate Thermodynamics In An Isolated System
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Graduate Internal energy, enthelpy and heat capacity
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Graduate Joule-thomson effect and linde process
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Graduate Which element has "stronger" radiation?
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Graduate Thermodynamics: derivation for q @ constant P
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Graduate [Thermodynamics] Heat Capacity for Polytropic Process
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High School Newton's First Law: At Rest or In Motion?
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Undergrad What is the rate of gas expansion in a vacuum?
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High School Odd Thermal Reaction of Coffee Grounds
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Graduate RF Susceptor Heating (KHz range) Graphite Foil vs Iron Foil (or thin film)
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Undergrad Engine Coolant Heat Dissipation Calculations
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Graduate Is every reversible process coincident with a quasi-static process?
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Undergrad Gas that expands and contracts QUICKLY?
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Undergrad Energy and matter equivalence
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Graduate Heat conduction through plane wall
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High School What is the relationship between heat and thermal energy?
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Undergrad Changes in volume of a liquid affects?
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Graduate Understanding Heat Equation in Equilibrium and Energy Balance
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High School How come heat sinks are cold by the touch?
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Undergrad How do I calculate van der Waals constants with 2 unknowns (a and b)?
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Undergrad Calculating Heat Transfer (Thermal Radiation) to a Shipping Container
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Graduate Zeroth law of thermodynamics and empirical temperature
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Undergrad Change in internal energy of gas (thermodynamics)
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Graduate Ideal gas configurational entropy -Swendsen 4.6?
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Undergrad Specific Heat Capacity of water
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Graduate Connection between Entropy, Energy and Zustandsum
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Undergrad Brightness and temperature of a filament
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Undergrad Adiabatic gas cooling/heating: Explaining Conceptually
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High School Entropy: Example of Wear & Tear with a Broken Door
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Undergrad Black Body Radiation: Get Help Understanding It
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Graduate Fundamental question about thermodynamics
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Undergrad Understanding the Carnot Cycle: Heat Pumps & Engines
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Graduate Thermodynamics and intertial frame
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Graduate Real gas equation in terms of Cv?
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Graduate Thermal Conduction and Newton's Law of Cooling
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Graduate Thermodynamics: ideal gas chemical potential pressure dependence
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High School Conceptual questions on Newtons third law
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Undergrad Temperature of fluid flowing through pipe
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High School Converting Calories to Joules: Uncovering the Correct Conversion Formula
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High School Can a Frictionless Dynamo in Space Produce Infinite Energy?
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Undergrad Experiment on piston cylinder, issues with Ideal gas law
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Graduate Perpetuum Mobile and Gravitation
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Graduate Heating steam, not water, with microwave energy
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Graduate Heat flow in low pressure, knudsen number
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High School Newton's third Law - action reaction pair
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Graduate Lower temperature gives more collisions?
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Undergrad Assumptions in Newton's Second Law
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Undergrad Compressible vs. incompressible substance
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Graduate Thermodynamics -- Carnot Machine
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High School Specific Heat Capacity: Comparing Spheres
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Graduate Thermal expansion/contraction of lens
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Undergrad Less irreversibility = less change in entropy
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Graduate Gas Expansion in insulated cylinder (piston & Diaphragm)
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High School Question about this formula (Q = m.C.ΔT)
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Graduate Demonstrate that Cv depends only on temperature
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Graduate How Does the Cosine of an Angle Affect Radiation Intensity from a Black Body?
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Graduate Distribution of radial velocities in a gas
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Graduate Radiation Intensity Thermodynamics
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Undergrad Newton's Third Law doesn't make sense
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Undergrad Direct Heat Transfer Between a Liquid And a Gas
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Graduate Work can create heat but heat can't create work
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Graduate Flat Plate External Free Convection Problem
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Undergrad Purpose of doing Legendre Transform
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Undergrad Reciprocating Engines and Use of Vaccum
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High School How many types of Peltier plates are there?
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Graduate Can the Carnot Reversible Machine Challenge the Second Law of Thermodynamics?
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High School Why don't forces cancel each other out when they act on two different bodies?
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Graduate Interpreting microcanonical distribution
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