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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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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?

  • Hardik Batra
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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

  • PatrickAndrews
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Graduate Steam Power Plants and the Second Law of Thermodynamics

  • Soumalya
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Graduate Reversible engines with different efficiencies

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Undergrad Intensive and extensive properties

  • iScience
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Undergrad Heat Losses while boiling a pot of water

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Graduate Exergy Analysis of a Closed System

  • Soumalya
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Undergrad Calculate Energy Applied to Steel Slab

  • debo22
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Graduate Partial Expansion in high pressure Turbine in a Reheat Rankine cycle

  • Idris Sayyad
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Graduate Working fluid for a thermodynamic cycle.

  • Geir Onsoyen
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Graduate How to detect alpha radiation without a counter?

  • Etheryte
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Undergrad How Much Energy is Needed to Ignite a Safety Match?

  • wes000000
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Graduate Can Superheated Steam Reach 1000°C?

  • Yashbhatt
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Undergrad Creating an efficient cooling system

  • jvlim
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Graduate Didn't we mess up with the temperature?

  • Meson080
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Undergrad Should not all substances boil in pure vacuum?

  • MrNano
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Graduate Thermal management in satellites

  • gildomar
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Graduate Secondary thermal energey conversion to inertial energy.

  • Fival
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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

  • Larry Shick
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Graduate Can this be solved without a knowledge of turbines?

  • BigWill
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Undergrad Why Do Gases Need Same Speed for Thermal Equilibrium?

  • Himanshu_6174
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Graduate Is Time Infinite? Entropy & Probability Explained

  • howabout1337
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Undergrad Hershel experiment regarding IR radiation

  • mildpiranha
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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.

  • litup
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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

  • Mike Rock
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Undergrad Boundary conditions for temperature distribution

  • Wisam
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Graduate Is a Freezer Truly a Closed System?

  • DonkeyMaHonkey
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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

  • Meson080
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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

  • Meson080
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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?

  • Greg Bernhardt
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Graduate Understanding Internal Energy in Thermodynamics: Definition and Equations"

  • Greg Bernhardt
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Undergrad Heat and Work: A Definition and Explanation

  • Greg Bernhardt
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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?

  • juchou
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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?

  • Netcastern
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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

  • manimaran1605
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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?

  • kelvin490
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High School Why lead is used for radiation shielding?

  • mediray
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Graduate Thermodynamic state entirely determined by only two quantities?

  • mSSM
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High School Stove from can, alcohol and steelwool

  • Oomph!
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Graduate Entropy: Problem Combining 1st & 2nd Law of Thermodynamics

  • kelvin490
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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?

  • taregg
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Undergrad Kinetic energy and heat energy of molecule?

  • Hardik Batra
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Undergrad Calculating Nusselts Number for Water Flow

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