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Graduate Hawking radiation , black hole size
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High School What temperature does moving water freeze at?
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Undergrad Entropy is a measure of energy availiable for work ?
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Graduate MSD for Non-Ideal Gas: Derivation & Analysis
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Undergrad Radiation Detection / Spectroscopy Project
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Graduate Newton's third law in terms of inertial position vectors for n-body system
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Undergrad How is energy of an isolated system defined ?
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Undergrad Ionization Blackout: Solutions for Rocketeers
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Undergrad Is making photon Engine possible ? :A different thought to power space craft
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Undergrad Why do the temperature drop if we take down the pressure?
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Undergrad Propane Combustion (btu/ft^3) how fast it'll move a piston
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High School Understanding Impulsive Occurrences in Newton's Second Law
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Graduate Boltzmann Entropy for micro state or macro state?
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Graduate Calculating temperature increase in a building as a result of solar radiation
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High School Questions on work done and Newton's third law
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High School Will Mixing Ideal Gases at the Same Temperature Cause a Temperature Change?
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Undergrad Fuel consumption increases during winter?
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Graduate Total Work out of Three Bodies (Thermodynamics)
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Undergrad Is There Any Motion at Absolute Zero?
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Undergrad The maximum theoretical efficiency of a heat engine
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Graduate Space generators by temperature difference?
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High School What happens to the temperature of an object in vacuum?
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Graduate Entropy And Energy Representation
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Undergrad Please help me design a Li-Po powered nichrome heating element (400°F)
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Undergrad What is a reversible cyclic process?
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Undergrad Thermodynamics of a adiabatic system with degrees of freedom
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Undergrad Explaination of thermocouple chart ?
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Undergrad How to Calculate Thermal Expansion in a Rod of Length 'l'?
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Undergrad Why does a flamethrower not explode?
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Graduate Thermodynamic energy analysis of nozzle vs. throttling valve/capillary
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Graduate Isentropic Isolated Systems: Understanding the Entropy of the Universe
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Graduate What does zero partition function physically mean?
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Undergrad Need Help Finding Data Concerning the Pyrolysis and Smouldering of Materials
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Undergrad Temperature Concept: Emperical vs Thermodynamic
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High School Understanding Entropy: What Is It?
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Graduate Is this what happens to heat physically when moving from HOT to LOW
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Graduate What is the true nature of entropy?
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Graduate Is increase in entropy synonymous with the flow of time?
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High School Have I found the world's first endless source of energy?
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Graduate How to calculate the boil-off rate of LO2?
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High School Can ancient calendars be considered engineering or physics inventions?
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Undergrad What is the physics behind the functioning of thermocouples?
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Undergrad Volume of 1 mole of Gas at STP
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Undergrad Where does the Energy that reaches the Earth Go?
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Undergrad Origin of IR radiation in living things ?
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Undergrad Easy problem with heat transfer from surrounding air to water tank
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Graduate How can we measure entropy using experiments.
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Graduate Deriving average surface temperature of a blackbody sphere?
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Undergrad What Makes Iron Effective at Blocking Radiation Compared to Lead?
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Graduate Which should I use to prove this?
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Undergrad Buckling: Formula to relate Temperature increase with axial Compression
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Undergrad Can Energy Conversion Ever Reach 100% Efficiency?
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Undergrad Joule free adiabatic expansion dT=0?
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Undergrad International reference triple point
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Undergrad What is the entropy if you have a spray can with 30psi?
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Undergrad If you lie on the ground at night with no cover, you get cold rather
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Graduate Prove expansibility / isothermal compressibility
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Graduate Ideal Gase Rigid Container Experiment
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Undergrad What Does Volume V Represent in Thermodynamics?
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Graduate Adiabatic gas Compression of Piston after Critical Point
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Undergrad Why does the atmosphere get colder with elevation?
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Graduate Thermodynamic Derivation of Wien's Law?
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Graduate Helmholtz free energy related query.
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Undergrad Definition of first law of thermodynamics
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High School Mixing water at different temperatures
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Graduate Recover energy from unique temperature
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Undergrad Why exactly Is Iron cooler than it's environment at 20°c?
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Undergrad Equation of State: Understanding f(P,v,T)=0
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Graduate Help understanding thermodynamics/BTUs
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Undergrad Partial differential of U at constant temperature?
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Undergrad Understanding P in Van der Waals Gas Equation
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Graduate Understanding Van der Waals P-V Graph and the Maxwell Equal Area Rule
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Undergrad Thermodynamics example in industry
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Undergrad Does Temperature Equalize Between Iron and Wood in Thermal Equilibrium?
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Undergrad How to get critical temperature from experiment?
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Graduate How to quantify a color's effect on heat transfer.
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Graduate Expansivity against temperature graph
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Graduate Maximizing heat absorption through Radiation
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Graduate Thermodynamics-Gibbs free energy: what can we actually measure in the lab?
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Undergrad How order and disorder defined for entropy?
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Graduate Finding Temperature from RGB Value | Using Wien's Law for Color Determination
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Undergrad Entropy: Heat addition to surrounding.
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Graduate Did Carnot use caloric theory .
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Graduate Thermodynamic - water/ice piston help
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Graduate Why did Feynman use the incorrect version of the ideal gas law in eq. 45.13?
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Undergrad Calculate change in temperature
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Graduate Question about the fundamental equation of thermodynamics
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Undergrad Maximum temperature under radiation
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High School What Makes Aluminium an Effective Thermal Radiation Shield?
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Undergrad Thermodynamics: 2 heatsources together and a heatsink
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High School Newton's Third Law Explanation
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Undergrad Counter intuitive melting temperatures
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Undergrad Heat transfer between two cylinders
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Graduate Can Heat Waves Be Polarized and Controlled in Direction?
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High School Heat travels oppossite direction of gravity
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Undergrad Does entropy in a closed system always increase OR remain constant (
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Graduate How does the length of a rod affect the wavelength of radiation falling on it?
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Undergrad Limit to the amountof heat contained in a rod?
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Graduate The direction of entropy in the universe
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Undergrad Question about what happens to density of airflow through a heated tube
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