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Undergrad Specific Heat of Sodium vs Absolute Temperature
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Undergrad Meaning of the adiabatic constant
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High School Does Wind Feel Cold Because of Heat Transfer?
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Graduate Relationship between EM Radiation Energy and Electric/Magnetic Field Magnitude
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Undergrad Vacuum Pump Solution for Perfectly Sealed Chamber
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High School At what temperature does Petroleum burn?
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High School Why does food get colder on the sides quicker than in the middle?
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Undergrad I have just realized that I never saved my college thermodynamics
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Undergrad Does a black body radiate all colors of the rainbow?
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Undergrad Whiskey Stones - ice, stone, steel: which is best?
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Undergrad Exploding Soda Can Mystery: Uncovering the Truth
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Graduate Can gravity be explained as an entropic force in relation to thermodynamics?
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Undergrad Specific Heat Capacity of Tantalum
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High School Second Law of Dynamics: Important Consequences
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Undergrad Emissivity and IR Thermometers
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Graduate Zero-point energy + Thermal runaway
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High School Are Gamma Rays Always Part of Nuclear Reactions?
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Undergrad Effects of Altitude on Convection Coefficient
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Undergrad Thermal Conductance Through Two Materials
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Graduate Entropy Change from Joule Expansion
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Undergrad Heat Transfer Application Question
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Graduate Few Fundamental Thermodynamics Questions
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Undergrad Is Ice Melt Linear? Investigating Possible Errors in a Lab Experiment
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Undergrad Questions about the downward gravitational force and Newton's second law
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Graduate Heat transfer and airflow question
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Graduate Thought experiment about energy
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Undergrad Is There a max temperature? My question about it.
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Undergrad Does Increasing ICE Engine Efficiency Lower Exhaust Temperatures Proportionally?
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Undergrad Tempertaure of a moving object vs. stationary one
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Undergrad How Quickly Do the Exhaust Gases Coming off a Fire Cool Down?
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Graduate Heat capacity of gas at zero K
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Undergrad Condensation on a cold glass during a hot day
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Graduate Temperature of the Heat Death of the Universe?
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Graduate Concept of Entropy. (Question)
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Undergrad Finding power needed to heat an oven through radiation and conduction
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Undergrad Is Water or Ice better for dissipating heat from a copper tube
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Graduate I want a deep clarification in entropy
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Undergrad Can Matter Exist as a Gas at Zero Kelvin?
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Graduate The fluctuation-dissipation theorem for a non-periodic driver
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Undergrad Does entropy decrease during the formation of stars and the freezing of water?
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Undergrad Producing heat(fire) using magnifying Glass
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Graduate Observing Optical Phenomena with 500THz Generator
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High School Difference between heat and temperature
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Undergrad Help me understand how much heat sink possible with frozen H2O
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High School Why Are Cooling Boxes in Refrigerators Often Positioned at the Top?
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Undergrad Vaporisation of coffee in a sealed cup
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Graduate Validating Third Law of Thermodynamics
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Undergrad Heat transfer of a cup of coffee
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High School Understanding Winter Thermal Conduction on Wooden Floors
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Graduate Is Muon-Catalyzed fusion possible with room temperature, gaseous Deuterium?
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Undergrad Question for all those who can answer
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Undergrad Why does ice cool liquid more than 32 degree aluminum cubes?
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Undergrad Temp within Comporessed Air tank
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Graduate The effects of the alpha, beta and gamma radiation on humans
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Undergrad I got burned by a helium tank valve. How?
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Graduate Why are specific heat high in water but low in ethylene glycol?
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Graduate Radiation from a Charged Black Hole Orbiting a Planet
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Graduate Is Newton's Third Law a Manifestation of Fundamental Laws?
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Graduate Does the Third Law of Thermodynamics Apply in Quantum and Cosmic Contexts?
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Undergrad Reusing lost energy from Compressed air
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Undergrad Specific Heat: Bond or Freedom of Degree Based, Or Size?
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Undergrad Thermal Equilibrium between a Hot and Cold Body
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Undergrad Negative Ion Emission: Heat, Piezoelectric Effect & Object Differences
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Graduate What is the Entropy of Liquid Nitrogen at 77.244K and 1bar Pressure?
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Undergrad Rradiators at high temperatures
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Undergrad Clarification regarding Newon's first law.
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Undergrad Thermodynamics for a geothermal heat pump
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High School Wind chill: how to calculate? Is there such thing as wind warmth ?
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High School Water Temperature Difference with Depth
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Graduate Temperatures Required for Explosive Expansion of Air?
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Graduate Equivalence of Canonical and Microcanonical Ensembles in Thermodynamic Limit
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High School Is My Battery Safe After Extended Heat Exposure?
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Undergrad Thermodynamics Help: Texts & Websites for Understanding
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Undergrad Why does temperature difference between 2 bodies affect rate of heat transfer?
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Undergrad What is the molar volume of gas at S.T.P. and S.A.T.P.?
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High School Spectrum observed on heated vessel
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Undergrad Solar Panel Efficiency and Temperature
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High School Manual or automatic save power in water heater geyser
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Undergrad Is there any way that Newton's second law can be derived from the
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Graduate What is the film coefficient for a hot object moving through open air?
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Graduate Is stored energy present in a bar that expands freely due to thermal induction?
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Undergrad Question About Measuring Specific Heat Capacity
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Graduate Cherenkov Radiation: Can Neutrinos Emit Light?
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Graduate How Do You Calculate Entropy and Reversibility in Irreversible Processes?
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High School Third Law of Motion :Confusion
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Undergrad Question about the Carnot engine
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Graduate Carnot Cycle and Reversibility
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High School Why the heat capacity of water is high?
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Graduate Coefficient of thermometric conductivity
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Graduate Hii have a few questions about entropy:why does the definition
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Graduate Air Conditioner Efficiency - Humidity & Precooling
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Graduate Metal Stretch Force Calculation (engineering)
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Undergrad Context Rich Problem: Thermodynamics: How much ice?
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Graduate Is the Phase Change Floatation Cycle a Theoretical Flaw in Thermodynamics?
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Undergrad A question from from thermodynamics
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Graduate Does physics forbid such a device; a heat destroyer
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Graduate CFL and lightbulb temperatures
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Graduate How did Carnot arrive at his theorem?
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Graduate Black-body radiation of a parabolic mirror in a vacuum violates thermodynamics?
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Undergrad Flowing water temperature mixing
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