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Undergrad Thermodynamics Problem for a Project I Want to Build
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High School How Heat Energy Transfers Through a Pan of Water
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Graduate Equipartition's energy theorem
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Graduate Idea 2 for how to break the second law of thermodynamics
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Graduate Idea for how to break the second law of thermodynamics
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Undergrad Does decreasing pressure of fluid in a fixed volume lower temperature?
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Graduate Temperature changes and degrees of freedom and intermolecular forces
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High School Can water be cooled below room temperature without refrigeration?
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Graduate Angular momentum loss from quadrupole EM radiation
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Graduate Ammonia forced to boil because H2 is at 200psi ?
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Undergrad Can Avogadro's Law Be Applied to a Gas with Zero Volume and Zero Molecules?
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Graduate Is the triple point a kind of critical point? (thermodynamics)
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High School Best colour to paint something to keep cool
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Undergrad Why is this ISOTHERMAL and not ISOBARIC?
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Graduate The background measure in Boltzmann measure
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Graduate Ambiguity in second law of thermodynamics
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Heating up an Ice Cube - Is it Possible?
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Undergrad Why Does Hot Water Freeze Faster Than Cold?
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Graduate Confused on phase diagrams for binary systems (thermodynamics)
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Undergrad How Do You Calculate the Change in Entropy When Ice Melts in Water?
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Graduate Enthelpy under uniaxial compression of solid
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High School Why does ethanol feel colder on our skin compared to water?
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Graduate Multi-Species Ideal Gas Law and Mean Molecular Mass
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Undergrad Increase in length directly proportional to the origin length
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Graduate Entropy increase,coarse-grained vs. Landauer's principle justification
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Undergrad Understanding Heat and Its Role in Thermodynamics
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Undergrad What Are the Best Resources for Solved Thermodynamics Problems?
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Graduate How Can Systems Achieve Negative Temperature Without Crossing Absolute Zero?
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Undergrad Water in evaporative cooler reservoir looses heat?
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Undergrad Gravity adding energy in an isolated system?
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Undergrad Details of temperature of plasma?
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Graduate What is the significance of heat capacity at extreme temperatures?
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High School What happens to ice as the temperature falls further and further?
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Graduate How does a single photon heat hydrogen in space?
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Graduate What Are 'Cold' Electrons and Their Role in Plasma Oscillations?
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Undergrad Heat flow through 2 conductors
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Undergrad Why are two different conductors needed for the Seebeck-Peltier effect
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Graduate Horizontal velocity constraint in Engineering applications
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Undergrad Heat conduction increasing with temperature
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Undergrad Steady state conduction in a hollow sphere
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Undergrad Quick question about Gibbs free energy
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Graduate Temperature CONFUSION in derivation for Helmholtz Free Energy
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Graduate Boltzmann's entropy/ Microcanonical Entropy
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Undergrad Is Heat Gain in a Solar Oven Consistent Across Different Substances?
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Graduate High Temperature Limit: Equal Probability of Energy States Explained
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Undergrad Hot gas expansion rate into outer space
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Undergrad Calculating Color temperature and Color Rendering Index
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Graduate Properties of adiabatic process
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Graduate Relating physics forces and entropy
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Graduate Equating differentials => equating coefficients
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Undergrad Newton's 1st Law: Object at Constant Speed, No Reaction Force
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High School Does Electromagnetic Radiation Contain Photons?
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High School Why does a strong wind feel colder than a gentle breeze?
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High School Newton's Third Law: Why Does Motion Occur?
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Undergrad Calculating Enthalpy of Reaction A+B -> C+D @ 298K & 1 atm
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Graduate Which has least entropy- living organism or same mass as chrystal?
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High School How Does Heat Affect the Size of a Hole in a Metal Plate?
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Graduate Cooling below 1 K: How long can it stay cool?
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Undergrad Can radiation pass through lead aprons?
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Graduate Understanding Temperature: Definitions and Applicability in Everyday Life
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Graduate Understanding a proof of Carnot's theorem.
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Undergrad Energy thought experiment (oldschool very)
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Graduate S2 - S1 > Integral 1-2 dQ/T Irreversible Process. What T ?
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Undergrad Transfer of heat by radiation and Second Law of Thermodynamics
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Undergrad Energy is neither created nor destroyed
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Graduate Difference between enthelpy, Helmholtz free energy,& Gibbs free energy
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Graduate Fundamental Thermodynamic Relation and Helmholtz Energy
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Undergrad Why is entropy a driving force for a reaction
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Undergrad Concept to extract heat energy from objects
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Undergrad Thermal radiation and emission spectra
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Undergrad Effects of decreasing volume and temperature for ideal gases
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Undergrad Do objects made of different matterials radiate at different rates?
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Undergrad Newton's second Law of Acceleration, Inertia and Momentum, Freefall
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Graduate Free expansion of a Van der Waals gas, physical explanation
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Undergrad Water and copper heat capacity difference due to potential energy?
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High School Energy a mathematical expression?
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Graduate Published paper proving that Carnot efficiency can be exceeded
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High School Heat (Energy) distribution during day-night cycle
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Undergrad Ideal gases and partial volume
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Undergrad Temperature different between two plate
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High School Boyle's Law Graph: Explaining Start Points
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Undergrad Does a Gas-Filled Bottle Oscillate Underwater Due to Pressure Changes?
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Undergrad Explaining Temp Increase When Compressing Gas: Kinetic Theory
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Graduate How Are Thermodynamic Property Tables Created?
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Graduate Could a jet engine be run on nuclear power?
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Undergrad Newton's third law and energy transfer
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Graduate Require length of a wire in free air with one hot end(1000 c) to 100c
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Graduate IR thermometer calibration source
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Undergrad What is the max free air heat transfer coefficient(film coefficient)?
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High School Understanding Linear Expansivity: Tips for Finding L2 with Ease
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Undergrad Free Expansion of Ideal Gas: Isothermal or Adiabatic?
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Graduate Move A->B What about entropy change?
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Who is Your Favorite Heat Scientist and Why?
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Graduate Clausius inequality temperature
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Undergrad Resistive wire and temperature
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Graduate Simple Thermodynamic extremum problem
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Graduate Entropy change during wet compression
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Undergrad Law of Thermodynamics only applies on large particle system?
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Undergrad Where can we apply the first law of thermodynamics?
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Graduate Δp for total reflection and absorbtion of E&M radiation explanation?
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