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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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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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