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I was wondering if one would classify light as heat, or as light?
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How does infa-red heat things up?
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Inrease in water pressure as a function of temperature under constant volume
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Heat Exchange between Fluids (and similar questions)
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Why does a car continue to run when the engine is turned off?
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Free Thermal Expansion and Stress
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Gas radiation question - He, H2 vs O2, N2
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Interaction of Radiation with Matter
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Aerodynamic heating on rocket fins
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Projected temperature rise of insulated ice block
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Diferent kind of energy (heat and kinetic)
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Thermal Conductivity, Specific Heat & Human Perception: A Physics Q
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Sensitive quick digital thermometer
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Less than 0 kelvin? Meaning of temperature
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Mixing three water quantities at different temperatures
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Difference between work and heat in thermodynamics
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Heat transfer at high temperature
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How Long Must Water Stay Underground in PEX Pipe for Geothermal Cooling?
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According to Thermodynamics Everything should Pop into Existence?
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Calculate Welding Heat Input per Point
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Why doesn't infrared radiation travel through glass
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Can I Calculate Engine Speed from Sound Frequency Inside an Airplane?
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SWL to secure engine onto a flatbed trailer
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Complex Thermo-Dynamic System of Equations
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What is the mean molecular speed of Mercury Vapor at room temperature?
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Confusion on Source of EM Radiation? (segment Serway)
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Confused about Newton's third law again?(Doc Al and others help)
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Euler's First Law and the Conservation of Momentum
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Kirchhoff's second law and inductor's field
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Can adiabatic process be isothermal?
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Does Optic Focusing Contradict the Second Law of Thermodynamics?
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The fundamental thermodynamic relation
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Can Maxwell's equations alone explain the momentum of EM radiation?
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Understanding Far Field Radiation of Hertzian Dipoles in Relation to Orientation
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Reflection and radiation pressure.
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What is Feynman saying here? (entropy)
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A question about the phase of pump wave of a dipole and radiation of the dipole
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Radiation pressure - classical description
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Terahertz radiation converted into heat
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Flame temperature based on colour
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Clarification on 1st law of thermodynamics and e=mc^2
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Molar specific heat capacities for gases
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Object’s speed and its heating temperature
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Change in Free Energy in terms of First Law
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What Do Wave Crests in Electromagnetic Radiation Represent?
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Quick question about Microwave radiation
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Laws Of Thermodynamics (Pre-university)
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Solving Enthalpy for Ideal Gas: Finding H as a Function of S and P
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Difference between enthelpy and internal energy
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N2 gas temperature change by different compression/expansion speeds
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Loss of heat from magma of Earth
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How Does Rapid Compression Affect Gas Pressure and Temperature?
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Development of 2nd Law Of Thermodynamics
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Coefficient of static friction in a 3D Games Engine
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Negative temperature and the amazing power of SM
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Does Revving Closer to Peak Power Improve Fuel Efficiency in Motorcycles?
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Thermodynamics and the Arrow of Time
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60-cycle vibration from heating pad?
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Calculating heat loss by evaporation (water)
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Molar heat capacity for an ideal monoatomic gas
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How can we define thermodynamics
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Question about Newtons third law
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A question about heat transfer
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Entropy Confusion: Feynman's Explanation and My Question
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Is heat's velocity constant like light's?
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Computer/System Security + Sencond Law of thermo
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Gibbs Free Energy: Unlocking Available Work Potential
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Heat Transfer & GPM: Can High Flow Coolant Overheat Engines?
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Carnot efficiency: is heat always positive?
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Thermodynamics conceptual question(for advanced people)?
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On Newton's First Law of Motion
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Wax in my heating system instead of water
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Thermal Conduction Through a Sphere
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What Causes Heat to be Released in a Deformed Spring?
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Enthelpy and isothermal, where is my logic wrong
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Why does heat pass from hot to cold?
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Entropy is as simply as possible?
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Quasistatic isothermal expansion
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Schroeder on thermodynamical reversibility, entropy and quasi-static equilibrium
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Thermal Noise (Johnson–Nyquist)
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Thermal Radiation & 'Black Radiation': Explained
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Is Polyfill Really Converting Pressure into Heat in Speaker Boxes?
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Converting engine torque to applied linear force
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Thermodynamic cycle and entropy
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What causes friction to generate heat?
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Can my CPU temperature be less than room temp?
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Microwave heating with a lid on
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Heat and mass transfer empirical equations
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Thermal Radiation Energy transfer
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Entropy, (ir)reversibility & Otto
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Thermodynamics: Heat Sink Experiment - 3 Pots vs. 2 Pots
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Hawking Radiation & Parity Imbalance: Matter vs. Anti-Matter
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