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Graduate Heating a pure substance at it's triple point

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Undergrad Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II engine power?

  • koolinoor
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Undergrad Fully Aquatic Engine prototype problem

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Undergrad Unclear formula for radiative energy transfer

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Undergrad Fugacity: Definition & Intuitive Sense

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Undergrad Young's modulus and temperature

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Graduate Van der waals equation and molar specific heat

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Undergrad Why is a condenser necessary in a thermodynamic Rankine cycle?

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Graduate Calculating Convective Heat Transfer of Floor-Air

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Undergrad Isothermal Process in a Non-Insulated Piston: Heat Exchange?

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Graduate Do Fundamental Particles Experience Heat?

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Graduate Introduction to Liouvillian Operator inStatistical Mechanics

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High School Why Can't Permanent Magnets Create a Perpetual Motion Machine?

  • elliswonders
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Graduate Power generation through endothermic heat absorption.

  • Teslafly
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Undergrad Is pressure constant when you heat a balloon?

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Graduate Barometric law for hard sphere sedimentation

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Graduate Quasi(Almost) Equilibrium(Static) Processes <-> Real Life Processes

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Undergrad What would be the best method for heating copper tubing via nichrome?

  • Qaiphyx
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Undergrad Very Basic Thermodynamics, H20, and Jet Engines

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High School Which gas has the highest flame temperature - hydrogen or carbon

  • taregg
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High School Using dark tiles to heat a pool via absorption of solar energy

  • doughpat
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Undergrad Does Heat Really Weaken Intermolecular Forces During Melting and Boiling?

  • PFuser1232
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Undergrad Emissivity of Skin: Unity & Ice | Need Help & Guidance

  • msbird
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Graduate Rocket engine gimballing - torque and angular acceleration question

  • ryanie
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Graduate Vacuum bags inflating in Cryogenic Storage

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Graduate Extensive & intensive parmeters of TS

  • sergiokapone
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Graduate Change in Entropy for Irreversible Processes

  • nayanm
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Undergrad What is the difference between internal energy and enthelpy?

  • abi.ayan
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High School Where does thermal radiation come from?

  • Entanglement
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Graduate This thermodynamic quantity equals what?

  • M. next
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Undergrad How to calculate thermal exchange rate of water inside Pex piping.

  • Equinefencer
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Undergrad Isothermal & adiabatic processes

  • Entanglement
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High School Why does shiny metal get so hot in the sun

  • rds-s
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High School Took apart a hot plate, nichrome is touching directly to the iron?

  • Qaiphyx
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Graduate Homeopathy and the second law of thermodynamics

  • jtschild
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Undergrad Gibbs Free Energy A Measure of Stability

  • Bashyboy
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Undergrad Boyle's law and constant temperature

  • Entanglement
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Graduate How can I efficiently heat a moving organic object for thermographic imaging?

  • Jake Platt
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High School Newton's Third Law and the Conservation of Momentum

  • Rishavutkarsh
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Graduate What Is the Boiling Point of POE Oil at 500 Microns Pressure?

  • Yuri B.
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Undergrad Why adiabatic process is required in heat engine?

  • avistein
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Undergrad Bell shape like of Planck's distribution

  • Entanglement
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Undergrad Reversed Carnot Cycle: Explained for Refrigerators

  • avistein
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Undergrad Heat transfer from gas to gas?

  • macrossvf
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Undergrad Heat insulators and conductors

  • Entanglement
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Graduate How Does Thermal Conductivity Influence Temperature at Material Interfaces?

  • shreder
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Graduate Equilibirum concentration in thermodynamics

  • aaaa202
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Graduate Energy required to cycle a counter through its states.

  • Adrian B
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Undergrad Newton's First Law of Motion is Wrong (Proven Wrong in This Thread)

  • NewtonWasWrong
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Graduate H20, CO2 and O2 in a Closed Container for a Long Time

  • newbie33
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Graduate Heat in the molecular/atomic scale

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Graduate Caratheodory's formulation of thermodynamics, Rejected?

  • ShayanJ
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High School Why Does Hot Air Rise Above Cooler Air?

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Undergrad Peltier cooler advice 200c to 60c is it possible?

  • joedp
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Undergrad Heat, Work, and Energy: Understanding Charles Law and Internal Energy

  • godingly
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Undergrad How to calculate of heat combuation for sulfur

  • taregg
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Graduate Thermodynamic PV-diagram: Why does a critical point =inflection point?

  • Nikitin
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High School What materials heat up under pressure and for how long?

  • tomta20012
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Graduate Is Constant Temperature Required in the Proof of Helmholtz Free Energy?

  • Nikitin
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Graduate Why Do Systems Need to Dump Excess Entropy?

  • Bashyboy
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Undergrad Calculating Heat Transfer Between 3 Mediums: Copper, Ground, Water

  • James Brady
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Graduate Entropy Generation in a Rod: Heat Transfer Considerations

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High School Can Humans Generate Enough Heat to Power the World?

  • Don East
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Undergrad What is the flame temperature for burning alkali metals in oxygen

  • taregg
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Undergrad What does mean sulfur has auto-ignition Temperature 248-266C

  • taregg
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Undergrad Energy - need a proper definition please

  • Jimmy87
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High School Does thermal radiation involve ultraviolet x ray and jamma ray

  • taregg
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Undergrad Is the efficiency of heat engine more in hilly areas than in plains?

  • avistein
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Undergrad What is the Meaning of Entropy Change for a Reservoir?

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Graduate Difference between Heat Death and the Big Freeze ?

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Undergrad Why Is My Calculated Keq from Gibbs Free Energy So Far Off?

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Graduate Converting Density to Standard Density

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Graduate Understanding Thermodynamic Variables: Fixing Confusion and Clarifying Relations

  • aaaa202
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Graduate Measuring thermal energy of surface contaminants

  • Jake Platt
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Undergrad Individual states of a particular energy level

  • abi.ayan
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Graduate Question about u and h and Its Differential Changes for Ideal Gases

  • Red_CCF
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Undergrad Measuring temperature in a metal bar

  • bogdan.blidaru
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Graduate Thermodynamics without partition function

  • cryptist
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High School Can anyone help with the perception of temperature difference?

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Undergrad Does eating decrease the entropy of my body?

  • pregunton
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Graduate Thermodynamics and microwaving food

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Graduate Varying thermal conductivity with length

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Undergrad Heat flow through rubber sample

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Graduate What are the Three Main Types of Connections in Thermodynamics?

  • aaaa202
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Undergrad What is the mechanism behind milk foaming in cappuccinos?

  • Borek
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Undergrad Strange claims about heat transfer

  • meeotch1
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Graduate Understanding Entropy and Fluctuation: The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics Explained

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Undergrad Linear thermal expansion problem

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Graduate Entropy Change of Ideal Gas Upon Inserting Wall

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Graduate PCM wax freezing outside solid, inside liquid

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Undergrad Can adjusting the scale compensate for imperfections in a mercury barometer?

  • ClamShell
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Graduate Second Law of Thermo: Is Entropy Decreasing Possible?

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Undergrad Heat Loss & Mass: Kinetic Theory Explained

  • Antigone
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Undergrad Enthelpy ,gibbs free energy, helmholtz free energy

  • abi.ayan
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Undergrad What volume does the v in pv denotes?

  • abi.ayan
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Undergrad Why is Entropy Highest at Lowest Energy?

  • avistein
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Undergrad Vibrational /rotational temperature?

  • hymeme
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Undergrad Thermal transfer improvement from adding fins

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Graduate Modifying the heat equation for multiple sources

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Graduate Ideal Gas Equation: Deriving pV=Nm<c>^2/3

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