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Undergrad Understanding Thermodynamic Functions: H, G, and A in Simple Terms
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Undergrad Lowering temparture of a gas due to slow expansion
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Graduate Multiple definitions for equilibrium
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Undergrad Combining three measurements of same thing to find error
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Graduate Why Do Shelves 3 and 4 in My Plasma Oven Heat Up More Than Others?
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Graduate How does life defy the laws of thermodynamics?
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Graduate Radiationless de-excitation - how does radiative heating work?
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Graduate Q) Reversible and Irreversible processes
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Undergrad What is the effect of temperature on coefficient of friction?
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Graduate Impact of heat on most classical physics problems
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Undergrad What does it mean when we say that average KE is equal to temperature?
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Graduate Thermomystery -entropy generation in a closed system
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Graduate Steam Power Plants and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
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Graduate Reversible engines with different efficiencies
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Undergrad Intensive and extensive properties
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Undergrad Heat Losses while boiling a pot of water
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Graduate Exergy Analysis of a Closed System
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Undergrad Calculate Energy Applied to Steel Slab
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Graduate Partial Expansion in high pressure Turbine in a Reheat Rankine cycle
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Graduate Working fluid for a thermodynamic cycle.
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Graduate How to detect alpha radiation without a counter?
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Undergrad How Much Energy is Needed to Ignite a Safety Match?
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Graduate Can Superheated Steam Reach 1000°C?
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Undergrad Creating an efficient cooling system
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Graduate Didn't we mess up with the temperature?
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Undergrad Should not all substances boil in pure vacuum?
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Graduate Thermal management in satellites
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Graduate Secondary thermal energey conversion to inertial energy.
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Undergrad Relation between force couple and Newton's third law
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Undergrad Molecular speed and temperature
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Undergrad Boiling liquid in a sealed container
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Graduate Can this be solved without a knowledge of turbines?
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Undergrad Why Do Gases Need Same Speed for Thermal Equilibrium?
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Graduate Is Time Infinite? Entropy & Probability Explained
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Undergrad Hershel experiment regarding IR radiation
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Undergrad Looking for information about cryogenics
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Graduate Conservation of momentum without Newton's third law
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Graduate Solar radiation force on comets.
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Graduate Cylinder with heat generation, Separation of variables
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Undergrad Newton's third law in ropes and tension
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Graduate A Thought on the Apparent Asymmetry of Time (the "Arrow of Time")
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Undergrad Radiation Exposure: Human Reactions to Low Levels
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Undergrad Boundary conditions for temperature distribution
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Graduate Is a Freezer Truly a Closed System?
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Graduate Kinetic Temperaturea and molecular velocities
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High School Understanding Newton's First Law of Motion in Physics
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Undergrad Evaporative cooling = refrigeration?
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Undergrad Surface temperature of a radiated plate
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Graduate What Are the Issues with Using Multiple Units of Energy?
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Graduate Understanding Thermal Radiation and the Uncertainty Principle
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Undergrad Energy consumption for cooling and average temperature
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Graduate How to get rid of units in Partition Function
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Graduate Theoretical methods to achieve high resolution heating or irradiation?
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Undergrad Some help with college project about air battery?
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High School When does Newton's Second Law not hold?
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Graduate What is the second law of thermodynamics
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Undergrad How Does Newton's Second Law Explain Force and Motion?
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Graduate Understanding Internal Energy in Thermodynamics: Definition and Equations"
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Undergrad Heat and Work: A Definition and Explanation
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Graduate What Is Free Energy: Definition & Equations
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High School Maximizing Sauna Heat: Pouring Water on One Stone or All Stones at Once?
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Undergrad EE Topic: Relation between Temperature and Natural Frequency of an obj
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Graduate Radiation emission and absorption
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Graduate Interpretation of the Van der Waals Equation
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Undergrad Can a Jet Engine be Created Using a Traffic Cone Design?
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Graduate How to estimate latent heat of polymorphic phase transitions
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Graduate Experiment Supporting/Falsifying Prevost's Theory of Heat Exchange
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Graduate Non-uniform adiabatic gas compression
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Graduate Thermodynamics, Exact differentials
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Undergrad Effect of temperature on semiconductors' conductivity
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Graduate Is the Stefan-Boltzmann Law Related to Black Body Radiation?
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High School Which one has strong burning flame temperature in air. potassium or
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Graduate Why total entropy change must be positive?
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Undergrad Cooling compressed air from pump
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Undergrad Diffusion of ions through different temperature bodies of water
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Undergrad What can be used to measure liquid nitrogen temperature?
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Graduate Why Don't Textbooks Include mgh/T for Elevation Change in Entropy Balance?
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Graduate Is entropy a state property in thermodynamics?
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High School Why lead is used for radiation shielding?
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Graduate Thermodynamic state entirely determined by only two quantities?
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High School Stove from can, alcohol and steelwool
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Graduate Entropy: Problem Combining 1st & 2nd Law of Thermodynamics
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Graduate Specific Heat Capacities in co-ordination with Thermodynamics
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Graduate Gibbs equation and third law of thermodynamics
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Graduate Can Gas Maintain Its State at Near Zero Kelvin Temperatures?
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Graduate Temperature Rise due to Increase in Pressure (Liquid)
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Graduate Problem understanding the derivation of the Boltzman distribution
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Graduate What Adiabatic Experiments Prove dU Path Dependence?
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Graduate Why heat can't be expressed as exact differential function?
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Undergrad Does alkali metals burned at very low temperature in air?
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Undergrad Kinetic energy and heat energy of molecule?
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Undergrad Calculating Nusselts Number for Water Flow
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Graduate Reversibility of heat transfer
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Graduate Calculating Thermo Properties of Water in Excel
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Home Theater Acoustics: Subwoofer Placement
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Undergrad Why do we need Newton's First law? And how the First law works?
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High School The physics of protecting fruit plants from freezing
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Undergrad Understanding gas pressure/temperature relation
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Graduate Power for a blackbody radiation
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High School Boiling Food: Is Less Boiling More Efficient?
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