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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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Graduate Why Can Energy and Volume Changes Be Considered Separately in Thermodynamics?
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Graduate How could you improve waste heat recovery systems in cars coolants.
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Graduate Thermal mass, building shell air volume, and heat losses over time
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Undergrad Change in temprature is zero. what about change in internal energy?
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Graduate Does the total entropy of the universe remain constant?
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Graduate Gas liquid contact in stripping column
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Undergrad Calculating Heat Loss vs Distance - Hi Guys
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Undergrad Calculating the coefficent of volume expansion of liquid?
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