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Graduate Prove Tv^(gamma-1)=C: Math Derivation Explained

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Undergrad Why is the internal energy of a gas only dependent on temperature?

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Undergrad Newton's Third Law of a car and truck

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Undergrad Expansion of a gas against a piston

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Graduate Temperature of shipping container

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Graduate Small scale entropy and information loss

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Graduate Internal energy when filling an evacuated tank

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Graduate Mass Lost by the Sun by emitting radiation

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Graduate Isothermal Expansion and the 2nd Law

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Undergrad Basic Hydrogen/gravity/thermodynamics question from a noob.

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Undergrad Heat flow through metal cylinder?

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Undergrad What liquid has ideal thermal properties for this project?

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High School How does temperature affect density?

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Undergrad Does the temperature return to its initial value in an adiabatic cycle?

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Graduate Calculate PSI of Hollow Cube with Hole Opened

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Graduate What is the true nature of temperature in physics?

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High School Specific heat capacity and heat capacity?

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High School Why do plastic warp when heated

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Undergrad Operating a pneumatic cylinder on hot air

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Graduate Adiabatic Process: C_v ≠ 0 Despite dQ = 0

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Undergrad Evaporation requires the removal of heat?

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Undergrad How Can a Flame Burn in a Closed Space Without a Fan?

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Undergrad Is thermal equilibrium possible by the Law of Cooling?

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Undergrad Energy Of A Single Photon In Em Radiation?

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Graduate Light & Entropy: Will Photon Energy Last Forever?

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Graduate In the pursuit of Scala Graduum Caloris

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High School Determine air conditioning cooling time

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Undergrad Thermodynamics - thermal energy?

  • iScience
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Undergrad Thermodynamics - Internal energy of state

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Graduate Natural logarithms in stat mech

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Undergrad Need help in solving thermo problem

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Undergrad An object above absolute zero radiates energy

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Graduate How to use small variances of temperatures

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Undergrad How to Calculate Mass Flow in a Torus Due to Temperature Differences?

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Graduate Cyclotron Radiation: Charged Particle Kinetic Energy

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Graduate Can a single atom have a temperature?

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Graduate Calculating Internal Energy of Solid CO2: How to Obtain Thermodynamic Values?

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Graduate How are Entropy and Temperature conjugate variables?

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High School Ball does not bounce automatically because of entropy?

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Graduate Thermo Camera and iridescence, a structural colours

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Graduate What is the mathematical proof for Kepler's first law?

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High School Where did Newtons Second law come from?

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Undergrad Can energy truly be destroyed if matter comes to a complete stop?

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Undergrad Heat Transfer Help: Calculate Water Needed to Lower Temp of Mandrel

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Undergrad Disk radial change with temperature rise

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Undergrad Heat Energy Removed: Latent Heat of Sublimation/Fusion

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Graduate Proving that a heat engine cannot exceed the carnot efficiency

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Graduate Can microwave em radiation interferes with radiowave em radiation?

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Undergrad Newton's Third Law and Unbalanced Forces

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Graduate Absolute zero and vibrating atoms

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Undergrad Work done by a car engine up a slope

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Graduate Do Neutrons Emit Infrared Radiation at Room Temperature?

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Graduate Entropy of a vacuum and heat death of the universe

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Graduate Mechanism of heating organic matter by radio waves

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Undergrad How much heat a bar is putting out?

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High School Energy Transformation: Electrical Generator Q&A

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Undergrad Synchrotron radiation vs cyclotron radiation?

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Graduate Direction of a photon created by bremsstrahlung radiation?

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High School Cold & Hot Wind: What's the Difference?

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Undergrad Thermal expansion of aluminum disc

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Undergrad Polarizing EM radiation, how does it work?

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Undergrad Find amount of H20 needed to cool Steel

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Undergrad Understanding the Flow Control Principle of Valves

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Undergrad Thermodynamics: Convection and Industrial PC Heatsinks

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High School Does the order you put blankets on matter for insulation?

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Undergrad Why Does Spray Deodorant Feel Cold When Applied?

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High School Fridge Thermodynamics: Why Does Room Heat?

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Graduate Can the Entropy of an Isolated System Decrease?

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Undergrad Does a Rocket Engine Exert Same Force Regardless of Velocity?

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Graduate Fundamental relationship between thermodynamics and stat. mechanics

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Graduate Cherenkov radiation - phase velocity not group velocity

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Graduate Emergent Entropic Thermodynamic Force

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Undergrad Black Body Radiation: Why Objects Emit Different Wavelengths

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High School The Cooling Power of Wind: Reducing Car Hood Temps at 55 MPH

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Undergrad Calculating the final temperature of a mixture when ice & water

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Undergrad About the 2nd law of thermodynamics

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Graduate Gibbs free energy and the first law of thermodynamics

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Graduate Gibbs Free Energy and Equation of State

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Undergrad Massflow rate from Pressure, Temperature, and Value placement

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Graduate Symplectic Structure of Thermodynamics and the Hamiltonian

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Undergrad Transient 1D radial conduction

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Graduate Infinite Integration of Fick's Second Law

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Graduate Achieving bigger popcorn through vacuum pump

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Undergrad Law for heat exchange and evaporation

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Undergrad Will Gas Cool Down in Deep Space?

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Undergrad Entropy: Increasing or Decreasing?

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Undergrad Calculate Cooling Time of Steel Rope in Water Trough

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Undergrad Equipartition Theorem (Thermal Physics)

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Undergrad Is water 'supposed' to boil at a lower temperature?

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High School Will a snowflake keep if you freeze it?

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Undergrad Why Is There Cold Wind? Investigating the Creation of Wind and Its Temperature"

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Graduate Heat transfer equation and internal energy

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Graduate A Tricky Problem Involving Entropy

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Graduate Can there be different IR emissivity & IR absorptivity

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Graduate Second Law analysis for Radiative Heat Transfer

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Undergrad Thermodynamics and polytropic ideal gas (very simple theory question)

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Undergrad What happens to energy as air fills a vacuum?

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High School Is there anything known as a Heat conductor

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High School Heat (radiation) without direct air transfer - greenhouse effect?

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Graduate Mean Free Path for a Mixture of Gases

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