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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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Graduate Higher Specific Heat Capacity: Explained

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Undergrad Are these statement true? (Regarding heat flow)?

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Graduate What is the relationship between entropy and the irreversibility of a process?

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Graduate Does entropy drive our conscious experience of time?

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Graduate What is the Relationship Between Entropy and Order in Physical Systems?

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Undergrad Water temperature range in a hot water cylinder

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High School Alpha and beta radiation interaction

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Undergrad How Is Thermodynamic Temperature Calculated for a Gas at the Triple Point?

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Undergrad AZINGLY, for the Joule cycle there is no heat flow at all, so it is 1-0 = 1.

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Graduate Irreversible process Entropie-Change/cylinder

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Undergrad Carnot Cycle Graphs: Understand Work and Temperature

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Undergrad Thermodynamics: Heat absorption / rejection vs colour

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Undergrad Adiabatic Compression: Pressure & Temperature Change

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Undergrad Difference between the two following formulas

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Undergrad Finding flow rates for different gases

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High School Is there any material in the world which cools when it is heated?

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High School Third Law of Motion and Magnetic Force: Is There a Connection?

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Graduate Why is Carnot not irreversible?

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Graduate Need help understanding this thermo. derivation

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Undergrad What is the equation for temperature of water over time?

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Graduate Partition function: [itex] Z=Z_{kin}*Z_{pot} [/itex]

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Graduate What is the time constant to evaporate a liquid

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Undergrad Struggling with a past paper question. DONT WANT ANSWERS JUST A NUDGE

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Undergrad Does Boyle's Law Only Apply in Isothermal Conditions?

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Undergrad Is there an element that heats up when exposed to alpha/beta

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High School Heat Flow Velocity in Solids: Factors & Impact

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Graduate Radiation reaction force and Newton's third law

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Undergrad Solving Heat Transfer Problems - Seeking Help

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Graduate Why are the equations for mean energy in the canonical ensemble equal?

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Graduate Ideal Gas Partition: Final Temp & Total Energy Change

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Undergrad Calcuating energy from Air Tank

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Undergrad Understanding laws of thermodynamics

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Undergrad My Version of Laws of Thermodynamics

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Graduate Equation of State: Internal Interventions

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Undergrad Calculating Work in Isothermal Processes of Carnot Cycle

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Graduate How to relate the radiation pressure to the internal energy?

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Graduate Temperature compensation for level sensing technique

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Undergrad Can Visible Light Produce Heat When Absorbed?

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Graduate How does heat affect bonds and their motion?

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Graduate Help Understanding Kerson Huang's Statistical Mechanics Textbook

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Graduate Is Conservation of Energy Sufficient for Deriving the Adiabatic Process?

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High School Wondering if a machine could be said to be 100% efficient

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Undergrad Calculating the Rise of Hot Air in a Solar Dehydrator

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Graduate Equipartition Thm: mv_x^2/2 = k_B T/2

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Undergrad IR thermometer pointed up into a cloudy sky?

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Undergrad What Defines the Cooling Efficiency of Motor Oils?

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Undergrad How to calculate thermal exchange rate of Air?

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Graduate Understanding Free Gibbs Energy: The Role of TΔS in Thermodynamics

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Undergrad Heating Curves and the Relationship between Kinetic Energy and Temperature

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Undergrad Rate of evaporation and steam tables

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Graduate How can I solve the heat equation with fixed and varying temperatures?

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High School Can wax be used as an effective energy storage mechanism for domestic heating?

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Graduate Why is the gas energy in a g-field 5/2KNkT ?

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Graduate Blackbody and absorption problem

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Undergrad How Much Energy Can Compressed Gas Release During Discharge?

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High School Heat Transfer Noobie Q: Matter Solidity?

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Undergrad How much heat will be transfered ,from heating element to surrounding?

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Undergrad What is happning with phase changes and intermolecular forces

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Graduate Overview of Radiation and Radiography

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High School What is the Height of EM Radiation

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High School What is the mechanism of cooling?Mechanism of Cooling: Explained

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High School Waves and how temperature affects their velocity in water

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High School What is the definition of latent heat and how does it apply to phase changes?

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Graduate Rate of thermal conduction in various copper structures

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Undergrad Quick question on Newton's third law & energy conservation

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Undergrad Idea gas law applied to throttling process

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Graduate Thermodynamics - Q, U, W and H

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Undergrad Temperature differences to create a strong pull

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Undergrad What is the state of matter beyond the critical point?

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Graduate The importance of reversible processes(?)

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Undergrad Ideal Gas in a Cylinder with Piston

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Undergrad Refridgeration, Boyle's law or enthelpy of vaporization?

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Undergrad Calculating Temperature at a distance from a fire.

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Undergrad Infrared Heat Mat - Will it warm up liquid (mostly water)?

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Graduate Ultra Low Cooling Methods: HE3 vs Nuclear Diamagnetisation

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Graduate Understanding the Role of Viscosity and Elasticity in Dissipative Thermodynamics

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Undergrad During a phase transition, what is the nature of the material?

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Graduate Radiation pressure and unpolarized light

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High School Heat rises, why is it cold at high altitudes?

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Undergrad What are Thermodynamic Coordinates and Why are Heat and Work Not Included?

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High School What is the relationship between heat and thermal energy?

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Graduate Clausius inequality correct for negative temperature

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Graduate Difference between Internal Energy and Enthelpy

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Undergrad Understanding Moles From Ideal Gas Law

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Graduate What happens to P when a vessel of water with no headspace is heated?

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Graduate Consequences to a medium after ionising radiation has passed through?

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Undergrad Thermodynamics: work done when a gas is leaking into atmosphere

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Graduate Do all reversible engines become heat pumps?

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Graduate Negative temperature and entropy

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Undergrad Understanding Condensation & Vacuum in Steam Engines

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High School Dryness Fraction - Do All Steam Have It?

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Graduate Entropy of a continuous system

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