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Undergrad Surface tension dependence on temperature
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Undergrad Iso-this, Iso-that - how the PV diagram should look
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Undergrad Does Heat Transfer Always Lead to a Decrease in Temperature?
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High School Does a Hairdryer blow harder with heat
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High School What is the relationship between temperature and pressure in gas laws?
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Undergrad Does exposure to radiation continue emitting rays?
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Undergrad Equipartition Theorem Degrees of Freedom
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Undergrad Could your pet parrot's energy power your house for 292,879 years?
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Undergrad First law of thermodynamics of gas
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Graduate Question on Boltzman statistics and numbering of states
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Graduate Absorption of radiation from a 'cooler' source
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Undergrad Understanding Wien's Law: Power Radiated & Wavelength
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Graduate What is translational entropy?
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Graduate Relationship Between Kinetic Energy and Temperature
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Undergrad KW and kWh - further explanation
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Undergrad Thermodynamics - dependence of molar fraction on temperature
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Undergrad Conceptual problem on Newton's Third Law
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Undergrad Black garment vs white garment .
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Graduate Understanding Nitrogen Compression: Implications on Pressure Vessel Design
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Graduate Entropy for Reversible and Irreversible Processes
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Graduate Unraveling the Temperature-Hall Voltage Relationship
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Undergrad Simple Method to Measure Thermal Conductivity of Insulation
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Graduate Is entropy a measure of disorder ?
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Graduate Problem with energy in a cycle
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Undergrad Will temperature of gas increase or decrease, from the formula PV=nRT?
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Undergrad Heat Generated due to Spinning Disc
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Graduate Equations of state = superfluous state variables?
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Graduate Dulong Petit derivation.How do we get this formula?E=kT
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Undergrad Does a Fan On a Wood/Coal Stove Produce More Heat or Just Dispurse It?
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Graduate Edison effect for Incandescent Bulb?
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Graduate Pulsar radiation at quantum level
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Undergrad How much warmer is 10 degree Celsius than 5 degrees Celsius?
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Undergrad Heat Loss and Energy Remaining Between Two Identical Materials
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Graduate Overunity from Heating and Cooling
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Undergrad Relationship between Velocity, Kinetic Energy, and Heat
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Undergrad Thermal physics - how are Cp and Cv used?
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Graduate Making Liquid Nitrogen at Home: Have You Tried It Yet?
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Undergrad Ideal Gases dealing with scientific notation
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Undergrad Witnessed Supercooled Liquid Phenomenon
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Undergrad Does this equation exist? (Latent heat, temperature, entropy)
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Graduate Questions about entropy, normal force, and the human body
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Undergrad Water Cooling Heat Transfer Calculations
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Undergrad What is the relationship between ΔG and equilibrium on a graph?
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Graduate Rijke tube: Why Sound is maximum when heated 1/4th length from bottom
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Undergrad What is the minimum temperature to make lasingaction possible in laser
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Graduate Gibbs free energy and enthelpy relationship
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High School How can I change the airflow under a hotel room door to the hall?
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Graduate Airborne particle focusing in heated chamber using thermal emission?
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Graduate Average energies (thermodynamics)
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Graduate Density of moist air at high temperatures?
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Graduate Calculating Inner Wall Temperature of Cylindrical Rocket Engine
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Undergrad Thermodynamics: deriving the quantum volume
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Undergrad Polytropic process vs perfect gas eq
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Undergrad What affects heat transfer within a material?
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Graduate Why is U used instead of Q to define temperature?
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Undergrad Thermodynamics and Open Systems
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Graduate Heat transfer and time needed to reach thermal equilibrium
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Graduate Interaction of radiation with matter
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Undergrad What is Cold Capacity and How Does It Relate to Heat Capacity?
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Graduate What determines the shape of the temperature-entropy graph?
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Undergrad Is it possible to recycle vehicle emissions in order to generate elect
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Graduate Drawing constant property lines on p-v/T-s/u-s diagrams
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Undergrad Ferrofluid Used as MRI Contrast Agent: Heat Risk?
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Graduate Gibb's phase rule and counting phases
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Graduate Big Bang Entropy: Constant or Increasing?
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Graduate Van der waal's equation and resulting curve
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Graduate The thermodynamics of stretched rubber, a function of speed?
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Graduate Differential form of the first law of thermodynamics
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Undergrad How does heat transfer relate to work and internal energy change?
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Graduate How Can I Minimize Temperature Drop in Chamber B During Air Transfer?
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High School Are the gas laws compeletely true?
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Undergrad 3 Cars Meets Newtons Second Law
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Graduate Can Gravitational energy be derived from First Law of Thermodynamics?
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Undergrad Why Are Isothermal Process Assumptions Necessary in Thermodynamics?
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Undergrad Greenhouse Gases: Explaining the Impact of CO2 & CH4 on Global Temperature
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Undergrad Higher temperature gradient result in heat traveling further/faster?
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High School Antarctic Temp Reaches -99.2C: Could CO2 Snow Have Fallen?
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Undergrad Understanding Heat Engines: Exploring the Second Law of Thermodynamics
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High School Change of State: Breaking Down What Really Happens
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Graduate How does temperature in Celcius affect enthalpy in a compressed liquid?
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Graduate Defining a thermodynamic system completely
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Undergrad How Do You Measure Solar Energy with an Umbrella, Tin Can, and Thermometer?
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Graduate Derivation for black body radiation. What is the 2 bout?
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Undergrad How do you determine the u-factor of a window assembly?
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Graduate Heat Radiation in Thermodynamics
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Undergrad Equating Heat and Einstein's equation confusion
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Graduate Dipole Radiation: Practical Considerations
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Graduate What is the Concept of Ensemble in Statistical Mechanics?
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Undergrad Thermodynamics and heavy use of partial derivatives
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Undergrad How Much Power Loss Can We Expect from Space-Based Solar Farms?
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Graduate I don't understand partition function
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Undergrad Comparing Reusable & Reliable Methods to Keep Babies Warm
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Undergrad If enough heat is applied to an object, will it reach escape speed?
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Undergrad Using Fluid mechanics to rate power output of an engine.
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Undergrad What is the Surface Area of a 60W Incandescent Bulb Filament?
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Undergrad Shaken, then opened, soda fizzing?
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Graduate Solve Mystery of qrev & ΔS for Reversible Heat Gain
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Graduate Osmosis and entropy/free energy and mixing.
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Graduate Notational question, d vs. delta when denoting an infintesimal change
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Undergrad Contradiction in laws of thermodynamics
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