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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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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?

  • SciencePF
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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

  • Hereformore
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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)?

  • Saado
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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

  • Jake Drinkwater
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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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