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High School What is the Lowest Possible Temperature?
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Undergrad Specific heat capacity for adiabatic & isothermal process
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Graduate Calculations for move in a volume in gas
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Undergrad Low temperature physics dangerous?
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Graduate Some useful form of the eq. of state of a REAL gas?
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High School Metal Low Specific Heat: Why Is It Useful?
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Undergrad Water Heating Transfer System - Power Requirements
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Undergrad Why Do Systems Prefer the Lowest Energy State?
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Graduate Thermodynamics: Unsteady Flow (Charging) Process
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Graduate Why can no other engine be more efficient than a Carnot engine?
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Undergrad Liquids, internal energy and specific heat capacity
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Undergrad Is the Heat Pump and Motor Setup Efficient?
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High School What do we feel when we say something is hot ?
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Undergrad How Do Nuclear Reactions Affect Water Heating in Reactors?
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Graduate Calculation of work (P.dV) in an isothermal system
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Graduate How effective is space as a heat sink for a mechanical system in deep space?
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Graduate Heat capacities, adiabatic processes, etc
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Undergrad Gasoline Engine Combustion: Shock-Wave or Expansion?
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High School How does a fan keep a computer cool
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Graduate A gas in a mini universe reaches maximum entropy
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High School What is a flame? why does sulfur burn?
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Undergrad What Is Entropy in Simple Terms?
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High School Why Is Iron a Better Conductor of Heat Than Wood?
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Graduate Temperature analog of free energy
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High School Understanding State Functions in Thermodynamics: Consequences and Clarifications
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Undergrad How strong is gamma radiation ?
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High School Why does the physical state of a substance primarily depend on its temperature?
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High School What Happens to Internal Energy in a Piston if Pressure is Increased?
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Graduate Understanding the Different Types of Energy in a System: An Exploration
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Undergrad Explanation of Isothermal vs Adiabatic Cooling
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Undergrad Compressing a gas; Where does the energy come from?
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Undergrad Thermodynamics: Understanding Isobaric Processes
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Undergrad Thermodynamics cycle with liquid and gas
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High School Enthelpy of Vaporization vs. Latent heat of vaporization
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Graduate Steady State Heat Transfer - Contribution to Reaching Equilibrium
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Undergrad Interesting Heating and Cooling topics?
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High School Does the Rate of Descent Affect Objects Burning Up in Earth's Atmosphere?
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Graduate What Does Entropy Really Mean in Scientific Terms?
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Undergrad Purpose of insulating furnaces
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Graduate Sum of energy in a system like barometer
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Graduate How Can Aerocapture Design Optimize Aerodynamics and Heating for Spacecraft?
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Undergrad How Do You Measure Heat Energy in Water Exposed to Microwaves or Sunlight?
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Undergrad Heat transfer from a fluid linear?
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Graduate Compressing Ideal Gas: Understanding Adiabatic Processes & Isochoric Cooling
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High School Question relating Newton's First Law of motion
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Undergrad What is the temperature at which air becomes plasma?
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Undergrad How can I calculate gas pressure in a cylinder using mathematical formulas?
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Undergrad Ideal Gases under Adiabatic Compression
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Graduate Finite amount of degree of freedom for entropy available in universe (?)
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Graduate Why is planck temperature the highest possible temperature
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Undergrad Temperature, brightness temperature, emissivity
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Undergrad Heat transfer with internal heat generation
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Undergrad The temperature change in a throttling process
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Graduate How does the heat equation change in the real world?
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Graduate Irreversible Compression and Expansion
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Graduate Find entropy change for free expantion of ideal gas
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Graduate Thermal conduction of heat by a solid body
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Graduate Stefan–Boltzmann Law - Radiation in a Sphere
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Graduate Conceptualizing entropy change of surroundings
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Undergrad Can absolute zero ever be measured?
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Undergrad Change of pressure, temperature at constant volume?
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Undergrad Proof of Planck's Radiation Law | Simple Explanation
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Graduate What is the Relationship Between Specific Heats and Other Gas Properties?
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High School Calculated the time it takes for a liquid to freeze ?
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Undergrad Temp & Melting Point of Water: Pressure Effects Explained
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Graduate Understanding Dissipation and Entropy in Newtonian Dampeners"
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Graduate Entropy change of the surroundings during irreversible process
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Undergrad Interpreting Diagrams: Why is C_v Used in Isobaric Process?
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High School How Do Earthen Vessels Regulate Water Temperature?
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Graduate Heat Transfer and Thermodynamics
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Graduate Heat in reversible isothermal expansions
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Undergrad Atom Vibration: Temperature & Conservation of Momentum
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Undergrad What is entropy? on the most fundamental level.
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Graduate Ideal Gas Simulation: Troubleshooting Pressure and Gas Constant in 2D Model
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Undergrad Isothermal vs Adiabatic expansion
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High School Temperature of Air: Why Does it Decrease with Altitude?
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High School Newton's Third Law and acceleration question
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Graduate Entropy change in a reversible adiabatic process
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Graduate Thermodynamics: Cooling Superheated Water Vapor to Saturated Vapor
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Undergrad A question about temperature and wind motion, and hello
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Graduate Black hole temperature derived from entropy (heat from black hole?)
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Undergrad Thermodynamic Processes: Adiabatic/Isochoric/Isobaric/Isothermal
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Undergrad Energy required to keep a mass in the air
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Graduate What is the definition of entropy in SM?
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Graduate Quantization of energy in blackbody radiation
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Graduate How do holes in semiconductor carry heat?
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Graduate Blackbody Heat Shields/Metal Sheets
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Undergrad First law of thermodynamics applied to Compression and Expansion
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Undergrad Calculate the work done in an external combustion engine
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Graduate Specific heat at constant volume
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Undergrad How Long to Heat 100mg of Material Near a Copper Conductor?
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Undergrad Thermodynamics: External vs Internal Pressure
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High School 273 + degree Celsius = Kelvin Why 273?
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Graduate Thermodynamics question (propellant gas)
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Undergrad What happens to temperature when compressing air adiabatically to 200 atm?
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Graduate Conceptual question about gas expanding against piston
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Undergrad Regarding the second law of thermodynamics.
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Graduate Calculating force of hydraulic cylinder
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High School Energy Transfer: Which Line Transfers Energy Faster?
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High School PV=nRT: Volume of Container or Gas? Impact on Temperature?
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