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Undergrad Internal energy change in isobaric system
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Graduate Oil Tank Analysis for Formula Student Car: Heat Transfer Calculations
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Graduate Could Interference be used to effect one way radiation?
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Undergrad A hypothetical machine (fluid expansion)
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Graduate Entropy in an isobar transformation
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Undergrad How many wavelengths of caesium-133 radiation are used to define the second?
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Graduate Spontaniety of gas(Nitrogen) adsorption over solid(Zeolite).
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Graduate Do lattice vibrations emit radiation?
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Graduate How Does Entropy Challenge Our Understanding of Life and the Universe?
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Undergrad Heat transfer and elastic collision
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Graduate Confusing Contradiction: dE-TdS+PdV=0?
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Graduate Thermochromatic liquid crystals, how do they change color?
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High School Why did the salt solution evaporate and leave deposits on the beaker?
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Graduate Thermal Properties of an Inductor
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Graduate Why is temperature & pressure constrained in a saturation state?
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Undergrad Is the Helmholez or Gibbs free energy every used outside of reactions?
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Graduate A question about terminology of phase state & criticality
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Graduate Is Heat Exchange Equal to Enthalpy Change in an Isobaric Process?
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Graduate Understanding Black Hole Radiation: The Mystery of Light Escaping Explained
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Graduate Use pressure to increase temperature of solar oven?
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High School Does lowering the water heater geyser temp save power
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Undergrad Behavior of Liquid Nitrogen at 3000psi & 6000psi
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Can Sleeping on Copper Improve Well-Being and Stabilize Body Temperature?
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Undergrad Concept of heating gas on pressure.
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Undergrad How do you calculate BTU of expanding compressed air
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Graduate Is there an effective life time of the universe where it will reach max entropy?
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Undergrad 2nd law and energy flows question.
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Undergrad Does T and P effect the mass flow rate of air through a pipe?
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Graduate Functional structure of Surface Heat
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Graduate Understanding ensembles, micro/macrostates, equilibrium, reversibility and more
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Undergrad Heat exchange in active system
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High School Does Temperature Affect Mass in Chemistry Experiments?
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Undergrad Calculating the volume of gas in the same canister from 2 locations.
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High School Newton's Third Law Explained: Is it for Cushions?
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Undergrad Adiabatic Process: Burst Tire & Cloud Formation
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High School What Does 8.9876e+3 Joules Mean?
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Graduate Maximizing Attic Efficiency: A Scientific Approach to Heat Transfer
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Graduate How Does Electron Behavior Influence Thermodynamic Properties?
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High School Do all visible radiations have heat?
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High School The meaning of force and Newton's third law
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Undergrad Do all radiations work on solar panels?
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High School Does Heating Helium Increase Its Buoyancy?
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Undergrad Evaporation of a mostly sealed erlenmeyer flask
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High School Heat Pump Basics: How Do They Work?
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Undergrad Newton's Law of Cooling & Specific Heat Capacity
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Undergrad Convection in a Bottomless Pit
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Undergrad Amout of energy needed to warm air
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Undergrad Calorie to Joules: Understanding the Fundamentals
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Graduate Thermal equilibrium through radiation and Stefan Boltzmann
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Undergrad What Temperature is Required to Break CO2 Molecules?
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Undergrad Volume of Hot & Cold water required for a known volume and temperature
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Undergrad What is energy's role in natural forces like gravity and magnetism?
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Graduate Newton's Second Law assumptions
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Undergrad Is an Ideal Black Body Visible?
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Graduate Heat capacity and its relation with internal energy
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Undergrad Can plants/solar panels decrease entropy?
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High School What is the formula for calculating rate of temperature change?
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Undergrad Evaporation in 100% relative humidity
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Graduate Thermodynamics: Defining Pressure
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Undergrad Area under graph of 'energy versus time' graph
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Graduate Entropy and Heat Capacity have the same units. Connection? Redundancy?
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Graduate Something About My Deduction On the Fourier's Law of Heat Conduction
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Undergrad Gas Thermometer. Not dependent on gas?
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Graduate Stat. mech. says: temperature ALWAYS infinite; what goes wrong?
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Undergrad Basic doubt in thermodynamics 2nd law
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Undergrad Thermodynamics and Concentrated Solar Power
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Undergrad Dependance of radiation properties on wavelength
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High School Comparing Coldness: ICE vs WATER at 0°C
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High School Fusion? (latent heat of fusion)
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Undergrad Gas flow, time required to fill a tank
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Graduate Joule Thomson Effect: Adiabatic Free Expansion & Derivation
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Undergrad Thermodynamics is air ducts, dew point
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Undergrad What has more entropy out of steam, water and ice?
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Graduate Possible conversion and units problems
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Graduate How to calculate entropy for a system
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Undergrad Pressure in a piston cylinder assembly when both volume and temperature change
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Graduate From molecular vibrational KE to temperature
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Graduate Degrees of freedom of an oscillator in an Einstein solid
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High School How is energy transferred from the bicycle wheel?
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Graduate How fast does density change in an isobaric system?
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Undergrad What is Enthalpy and How is it Used in Thermodynamics?
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Undergrad What happens to matter near absolute zero
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Undergrad Calculation of thermal stress.
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Undergrad How heat energy creats photon and how it jump to other atoms?
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Graduate EMF Production in Thermocouples: Causes & Effects
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High School Hw can we relate conervation of momentum with Newton's third law?
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Graduate Is Enthalpy Always Conserved in Different Expansion Paths?
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Undergrad Otto cycle exhaust heat rejection
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Graduate Question regarding carnot cycle
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High School Should I Drain the Ice Box for Better Chilling?
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Graduate Is the Carnot efficiency valid for fuel cells?
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Graduate Entropy Reversal: Proven by Physics and Science
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High School Why Does a Book on a Table Stay at Rest Despite Action and Reaction Forces?
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Undergrad What has thermal energy but not heat? (and vice versa)
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Graduate Grand partition function Z of a system
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Undergrad Temperature vs Heat: Double the Temp, Double the Heat?
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Undergrad 1st law of thermodynamics./ Conservation of energy.
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High School Heat energy and thermal energy
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Graduate Radiation Assumptions: Understanding Multipole Moments & λ
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Undergrad Does cold gasoline have less energy
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