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Fundamental thermodynamic relation confusion.
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What factors contribute to the expected temperature of a pool?
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Anyone knows what this means? Something to do with Thermodynamics?
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How does entropy production occur in non-equilibrium chemical processes?
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Recommendation for a Thermodynamics and/or Statistical Mechanics text?
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IR thermometers and Blackbody Radiation
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Thermodynamic energy of vibration
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Is heat actually developed in resistors?
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Heat transfer equation puzzling results
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How much heat is being drawn when water vaporize?
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Probabilistic violation of entropy by radiation
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How can you differentiate entropy
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What is the specific heat capacity of tap water?
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Understanding the Boiling Point: Thermodynamic Proof
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Convert kinetic energy into thermal energy
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Is the Assumption of Equal KE for Particles Justified in Physics?
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Why Can Heat Pumps Have an Efficiency Greater Than 1?
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Heating water by dropping it from a high height.
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How does heat transfer occur in different materials?
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Thermodynamics question, heat transfer via radiation.
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What is the difference between heat and thermal energy?
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Temperature and pressure in sauna?
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Can Heat Dissipate Without a Medium for Transfer?
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Second Law of Thermodynamics-Convert Heat to Work
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Instantaneous poynting vector for EM radiation
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Entropy Rise: Causes and Effects
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Why is the Temperature of Water Low Than Atmosphere?
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Difference in conventional and fundamental entropy?
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Black Body Radiation: Exploring Radiated & Perpendicular Power
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How do we determine the proper variables to use in thermodynamics?
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What can you capture with an IR camera using heat transfer principles?
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A doubt regarding the proof of kirchoff's law of thermal radiation
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Heat Transfer solar collector system Problem
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Can an object that is producing radiation, have an acceleration but not move
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Infrared heats a body but UV heats less
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Fluid Mechanics - For engineers and mathematicians?
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Ideal Gas Entropy: Solving Kardar's Equation IV.33
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Newton's third law in non-inertial frames
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What Makes the Carnot Cycle Complex for Maximum Heat Efficiency?
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What does the relation for temperature dE/dS=T mean physically?
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Relation between kinetic energy and temperature
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Is thermodynamics a description rather than a mechanism?
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Thermodynamic equipartition of energy theorem - application to life
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Newtons third law and conservation of momentum
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Thermodynamics : Only experimental?
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What it would mean to have a high temperature
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Where does the (5/2) come from in calculating thermal energy of diatomic gas
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Finding Final Temp. Distribution After Thermal Equilibrium
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Heat transfer equation - formulation
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Why Is Entropy Considered a State Variable?
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Need to calculate how much a surface will heat up near a hot light
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Definition of The first law of motion
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Square Base Heat Sink: Physics Test Q&A
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Deegres of fredom in thermodynamics
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Is Heat Capacity the Same for All Materials?
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How Does Ice Thickness Affect Heat Transfer in a Frozen Pond?
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What do the subscripts in thermodynamic notation mean?
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Derivation of Stefan-Boltzmann law from Thermodynamics
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Simple thermodynamics to be verified
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Kepler's First law Polar to Cartesian
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Comparing Cooling Rates of Solid and Hollow Spheres
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Does all matter with a temperature radiate?
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Is there an equation to prove the Zeroth law of thermodynamics?
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