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Undergrad Is RMS speed dependent on pressure?
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Graduate How was the Birch-Murnaghan equation derived for high pressure volume behavior?
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Graduate Radiation Safety: Understanding Exposure and Risk
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Undergrad Is this transformation irreversible?
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Undergrad Understanding Heat Capacity and Work: Clarifying Misconceptions
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Undergrad Extremely strange consequence of the speed of heat value
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Graduate Free expansion of an ideal gas and changes in entropy
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High School The Physics of blowing a puff of air
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Undergrad How Is the Partition Function of BaTiO3 Calculated in a Cubic Lattice?
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High School Can Metal Pins Increase Heat Transfer in Concrete Walls?
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Undergrad Yet again about (real) gas compression
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Undergrad Heating gasses in space -- How could we make a greenhouse in space?
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High School How Does Entropy Relate to the Arrow of Time in the Early Universe?
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Graduate Energy hypersurface in a phase space (statistical physics)
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Undergrad Exploring Work Done in Quasi-Static & Non Quasi-Static Expansion
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High School Question regarding Heat Transfer in Carnot Engine
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Undergrad Boltzmann Entropy Formula – Derivation
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Graduate Resolve Discrepancies in Boltzmann's Equilibrium Theory
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High School Can High Temperature Exist in Intense Gravitational Fields?
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Undergrad Physics of paper absorbing Water -- Doesn't this decrease Entropy?
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Undergrad Problem understanding entropy (two different definitions?)
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Undergrad Expelling warm air from voids - what is left afterwards?
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Undergrad Water converted to plasma -- how does this work?
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High School Question regarding using the expression $dE_{int}$=nC_vdT$
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High School Does gravity defy the 2nd Law?
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Undergrad Are Boltzman's statistics compatible with a deterministic universe?
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High School How accurate is the definition of heat?
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Undergrad Smoke Alarms and radiation from them
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Graduate Superconductivity at "ambient temperature"?
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High School How are thermodynamic laws related to one another?
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Undergrad Why Doesn't the McLaren Oil in Water Engine Work?
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Undergrad Heat diffusion through grain mash to reach equilibrium
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Undergrad Gas compression - does it double the energy?
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Undergrad Is the hot weather causing bursting airbeams when camping?
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Undergrad What Causes the Darkening of Metal Bucket Color at High Temperatures?
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High School Loschmidt's paradox and free gas expansion
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High School Question about the definition of a partial derivative
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Undergrad How do we determine complex state equations for substances?
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Undergrad Regarding when to consider both laminar and turbulent flow
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Undergrad Water bath and water vapor + air mixture in a closed system
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Graduate Displaying the dimensionless Radiation Transport Equation
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Graduate Will air turbulence in flexible airduct causes water condensation?
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Undergrad Thermodynamic constant -- misunderstanding
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Undergrad What is the equation for calculating average gas flow in a compressed syringe?
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Undergrad Minimization of thermodynamic equilibrium
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High School How to use Refrigerators/AC in efficient manner so that it remains cool inside?
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Undergrad How Can Internal Energy of the Canonical Ensemble Change (Fluctuate)?
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Undergrad Determining Heat of Fusion for Ice: Calorimetry experiment
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Undergrad Derivation of the Canonical Ensemble
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Undergrad Is this proof of cp - cv correct
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High School 1.5 cubic meters ice cube melting
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High School Confusion when considering pV=nRT in Two Balloon experiment
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Undergrad Blackbody radiation and the cosmic microwave background
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Undergrad Can adding a second peltier cooler help lower temperatures even further?
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Undergrad Why does hot air have low pressure? (wind formation)
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Undergrad Request for an example of minimum energy principle (thermodynamics)
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Undergrad Relative humidity question (cooling the air in a room)
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Undergrad Problem regarding understanding entropy
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High School Can We Predict Fire Movement?
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Undergrad How to Operate a Swamp Cooler in Phoenix in June
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High School Ideal gas formula not working?
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Undergrad Validity of the Boltzmann Distribution
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Undergrad Effect of attractive interactions on Gibbs free energy
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Undergrad Does pressure affect the thermal breakdown of water?
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Undergrad Can Self-Running Heat Pumps Revolutionize Home Efficiency?
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Undergrad Calculating the thermal coefficient between the insulated interior of a telescope instrument package and the cold ambient air outside
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Undergrad How Does Electron Spin Affect the Partition Function in Saha's Equation?
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Graduate Experimental Studies of the Internal Energy of a real fluid
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Undergrad Experimenting with a vacuum pump
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Undergrad Questions about a System in Equilibrium
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Undergrad Is it cooler hanging ice packs from a fishnet bag or in a thermal lunch-bag?
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Undergrad Difference between the thermal and mechanical efficiency
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Undergrad Work done by a gas in a heat engine which compresses a spring
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High School Heat Pumps And The Peltier Effect
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Undergrad Energy flux direction in a conducting wire?
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High School Does a full fridge cost less money to run than an empty fridge?
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Graduate Definition of entropy for indistinguishable and distinguishable particles
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Undergrad Vapour pressure/solubility of small and big grain surfaces and corners
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Graduate Cavitation: radius of a bubble for compressible flow
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Undergrad What is the Role of Convective Heat Transfer in Cavitation of Cryogenic Fluids?
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High School Question about Thermophotovoltaics (thermal heat engine)
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Undergrad Microstates of an atom in an energy state
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Undergrad Reading course in statistical physics
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Undergrad Understanding the Clausius-Clapeyron Formula: V_{l} and V_{g}
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Graduate Derivation of Statistical Mechanics
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Undergrad The meaning and consequences of 'False Pressure'
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Undergrad How is target superheat table generated for R22 HVAC system
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High School Simple liquid/gas law question and liquid transfer query
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Undergrad Magnetic fields are exceptions to the second law of thermodynamics?
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Graduate How Does Quantum Theory Provide a Measure for Microstates in Phase Space?
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Undergrad Compressed gas energy storage formula
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Undergrad Understand the Thermodynamic Identity: Is This Correct?
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Undergrad Question about the rules of thermodynamics
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Undergrad Is this water pumping device using the Rankine cycle?
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High School What Does Svante Arrhenius' Salt Water Experiment Reveal About Entropy?
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Undergrad How Does the Flow Equation Apply in Higher Dimensional Phase Spaces?
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High School Did Sadi Carnot's Doubts Pave the Way for Clausius's Generalization in Physics?
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Undergrad Why Should the Total Number of States Equal the Volume of an Octant?
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Undergrad Equipartition theorem and Drag
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Undergrad Interpreting Thermal Power in Cylinder with Source & Sink
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