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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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Undergrad Which thermodynamics concepts confuse or confused you the most?
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High School Simple energy calculation help
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Graduate Any energy generation process means mass loss?
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Graduate Partition function related to number of microstates
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Graduate Air absorbing moisture by blowing across pond
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High School Limitations of temperature in a large body of water
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Undergrad Second law of thermodynamics problem
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Undergrad Specific heat capacity of Argon dependence on temperature
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