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Undergrad Identifying the various forms of Energy

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Graduate Temperature change in an isentropic flow of an ideal gas

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Graduate IR thermometers and Blackbody Radiation

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Undergrad Thermodynamic energy of vibration

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Undergrad Running a vehicle by burning aluminium?

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Undergrad Is heat actually developed in resistors?

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Undergrad Heat transfer equation puzzling results

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High School How much heat is being drawn when water vaporize?

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Graduate Probabilistic violation of entropy by radiation

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Graduate How can you differentiate entropy

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High School What is the specific heat capacity of tap water?

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Graduate Understanding the Boiling Point: Thermodynamic Proof

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Graduate Convert kinetic energy into thermal energy

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Undergrad Is the Assumption of Equal KE for Particles Justified in Physics?

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Undergrad Why Can Heat Pumps Have an Efficiency Greater Than 1?

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Undergrad Heating water by dropping it from a high height.

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Undergrad How does heat transfer occur in different materials?

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Graduate Thermodynamics question, heat transfer via radiation.

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Undergrad What is the difference between heat and thermal energy?

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Undergrad Can the Rapid Depressurization of a Soda Can Cause Significant Cooling?

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Undergrad Temperature and pressure in sauna?

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High School Who can explain the temp drop in a sauna?

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Undergrad Can Heat Dissipate Without a Medium for Transfer?

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Undergrad Second Law of Thermodynamics-Convert Heat to Work

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Graduate Instantaneous poynting vector for EM radiation

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Graduate Entropy Rise: Causes and Effects

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High School Why is the Temperature of Water Low Than Atmosphere?

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Graduate Why ∆u=Cv ∆T for isochoric transformation of non-ideal gases?

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Undergrad Difference in conventional and fundamental entropy?

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Undergrad Black Body Radiation: Exploring Radiated & Perpendicular Power

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Graduate How do we determine the proper variables to use in thermodynamics?

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Graduate Application of Fourier law of conduction

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Undergrad What can you capture with an IR camera using heat transfer principles?

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Graduate A doubt regarding the proof of kirchoff's law of thermal radiation

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High School Where does the energy come from in a canal lock?

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Graduate Heat Transfer solar collector system Problem

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Undergrad Newton's third law and surface area of paddles

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Undergrad Does Air Entering an Evacuated Bottle Perform Work?

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Graduate Can an object that is producing radiation, have an acceleration but not move

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Undergrad Understanding the Physics of Orange Glow in Hot Objects

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Undergrad Calculate Power Produced by Cycle Dynamo

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High School I'm curious Why do we feel cooler when wind hits us?

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Undergrad Infrared heats a body but UV heats less

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Undergrad Fluid Mechanics - For engineers and mathematicians?

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Graduate Ideal Gas Entropy: Solving Kardar's Equation IV.33

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Undergrad Free Diving: Lung Volume at Different Depths

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Undergrad Why Does Food Stick More to a Hot Pan Than a Cold One?

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Graduate Newton's third law in non-inertial frames

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Undergrad Why does a warm weighing cup weigh less?

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Undergrad What Makes the Carnot Cycle Complex for Maximum Heat Efficiency?

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Graduate What does the relation for temperature dE/dS=T mean physically?

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Undergrad Relation between kinetic energy and temperature

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Undergrad Opening a bottle of soda or champagne

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Graduate Is thermodynamics a description rather than a mechanism?

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High School Why ice freezes on the top of a pond

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Graduate Thermodynamic equipartition of energy theorem - application to life

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High School Newtons third law and conservation of momentum

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Undergrad Thermodynamics : Only experimental?

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Graduate What it would mean to have a high temperature

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Graduate Why does the equipartition theorem depend on the number of degrees of freedom?

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Graduate Energy Balance Equation for Diffusion of Specimens Across a Membrane

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Undergrad Where does the (5/2) come from in calculating thermal energy of diatomic gas

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Undergrad Connection between emissivity and albedo

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Graduate What happens when a gas is compressed faster than the relaxation time?

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Undergrad Is the sun a passive or active blackbody?

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Undergrad Linear metal expansion - For an Old timer

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Graduate Is There an Absolute Maximum Temperature Beyond Planck Temperature?

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Graduate Explaining an experimental oddity

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Graduate Finding Final Temp. Distribution After Thermal Equilibrium

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Graduate Heat transfer equation - formulation

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Graduate Why Is Entropy Considered a State Variable?

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Undergrad Need to calculate how much a surface will heat up near a hot light

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Graduate Boltzmann Distribution: Exploring Energy in High Density Reservoirs

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High School Definition of The first law of motion

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Undergrad I remember I read somewhere about the boltzmann distribution that it

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High School Square Base Heat Sink: Physics Test Q&A

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High School Evaporation Rates: Temperature Effects

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Undergrad Deegres of fredom in thermodynamics

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Undergrad Is Heat Capacity the Same for All Materials?

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Undergrad How Does Ice Thickness Affect Heat Transfer in a Frozen Pond?

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Graduate What do the subscripts in thermodynamic notation mean?

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Undergrad What causes materials to heat up when energy is converted?

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Graduate Thermodynamical Work: Understanding Pext, Pint & dV

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Graduate Entropy: Why & How Does C_V Go to Zero?

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Graduate Derivation of Stefan-Boltzmann law from Thermodynamics

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Undergrad Simple thermodynamics to be verified

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Undergrad Why Does Boltzmann Distribution Depend Only on Temperature?

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Undergrad What is the difference between enthalpy and internal energy?

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Undergrad What is the tension in the rope and how does it affect the man's equilibrium?

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Undergrad Kepler's First law Polar to Cartesian

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Undergrad Confusion over intensive properties (Thermo)

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Undergrad Comparing Cooling Rates of Solid and Hollow Spheres

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Graduate Equation of State for Solids (Dense Fluids?)

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Undergrad What happens to free body diagrams when breaking through a wall?

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Graduate Entropy & Heat Flow: Understand Thermodynamics & Multiplicity

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Undergrad Sealing a low-vacuum closed system

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Graduate Intuition Mismatch: Reconciling ΔH for Ideal Gas Isothermal Expansion

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Undergrad Does all matter with a temperature radiate?

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Undergrad Is there an equation to prove the Zeroth law of thermodynamics?

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Undergrad Heat Transfer Formula for 2D Vector Games

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