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Graduate What's Left to Discover in Chemical and Thermal Physics?
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Undergrad Enthelpy and Heat State Functions
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Undergrad Thermodynamics - Internal Energy in Isochoric and Isobaric Processes
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Graduate Reversibility, adiabatic-ness, quasi-static
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Undergrad Calculating Gas Density at Altitude: Simple Equation for Terminal Velocity
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Graduate Question about entropy=0 in an irreversible process
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Undergrad The need of Newtons first law of dynamics
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Undergrad Thermo Help for Exam: Textbook Examples & Problems
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High School Why Do Some People Freeze Their Weights Before Exercising?
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Graduate Time constant for gas to reach equipartion equilibrium
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Undergrad Is the kinetic theory of gases applicable to a one-atom gas?
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Graduate Discover the Power of Advanced Entropy: Your Guide to Mastering the Concept
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Graduate Solving Enthaply by other ways?
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Undergrad Why Does External Pressure Not Affect Work Done on Compressed Gas?
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Graduate How does the size of a system affect its access to new states with added heat?
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Graduate Understanding Thermodynamics: Minimum Gibbs Potential and Maxwell's Relation
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Graduate Doubt as to application of Wien's displacement law
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High School Newton's Third Law: Unpacking the Mystery
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Graduate How much steam is needed to open a relief valve using the ideal gas law?
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Graduate Legendre Transforms: U=U(S,V) vs U(V,P)
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High School Evaporation of Liquids: 3 Questions Explained
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High School The workings of a Stirling engine
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Undergrad Why Carnot's engine needs 4 cycles instead of only 2
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Graduate What would happen when a jet travelling at Mach 10 experiences engine failure
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Graduate Radiation Pressure: Proving Magnetic Field Reflection on Perfect Conductor
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Graduate Steam Table Issues: Convert m3/hr to kg/hr @14.5 barg, 1150 deg C
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Undergrad Combustion: where does the heat come from?
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Undergrad Thermal conductivity value of (.17-.20)W/m.K
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Undergrad Confusion regarding Newton's Third Law of Motion
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Graduate Temperature defined in terms of entropy and energy
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High School Isochoric Compression Explained
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High School Can You Use a Car Heater to Heat Your Home?
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Undergrad Does an object lose thermal energy due to gravity alone
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Graduate Proof LaGrangian: Prove Ideal Gas Eqn w/ T, P, n, V, R
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Graduate Radius of ice melted by heat from a point.
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Undergrad Why Does Balloon Volume Decrease with Liquid Nitrogen?
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Graduate Solving for Temperature in a Heat Dissipation Box
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Undergrad Heating a 7 cm long copper wire of cross sectional diameter .75mm
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Graduate Why did entropy decrease after the big bang?
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Undergrad Help I need to find out whether activation energy can be calculated this way ?
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Undergrad What is the process called of heating alloys to High temperature for strength
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Graduate Question about the arrow of time?
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Undergrad Hi there So i have a q from the realms of thermodynamics , should be
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Graduate How Much Heat Must Be Removed in an Adiabatic Compressor Process?
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Graduate Understanding the Thermodynamics of Compressing and Throttling Fluids
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Graduate Can Altitude Hypothesis Challenge the Second Law of Thermodynamics?
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High School Using a fan and space heater to warm up a room
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Graduate Justification of generalisation from reversible processes to all procesess
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High School The Relationship Between Temperature and Pressure of an Ideal Gas
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High School How maximum and minimum thermometers work?
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Graduate Why Do Heat Capacities Use Derivatives of Entropy in Their Formulas?
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Undergrad Friction and Newton's Third Law
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Undergrad How is temperature defined for solids?
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Graduate Sources for resistivity of W depending on temperature
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Graduate Thinking about one directional nature of time
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Graduate Equation of temperature increase by shock wave
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Graduate Thought experiment regarding artificial gravity (Newton's third law in space)
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Undergrad First and second laws of thermodynamics
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Undergrad Does order increase or decrease?
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Graduate Clarification regarding Cherenkov radiation
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Undergrad Understanding Brayton Cycle Temperatures: Finding Outlet Flow Rate"
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Undergrad Macroscopic kinetic energy, temperature, and light
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Undergrad Unraveling the Mystery Behind Energy Equations
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Graduate Does steam rising in an insulated tube lose thermal energy
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Graduate Thermal expansion of an interference fit
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Undergrad Radiation How radiation affects different configurations of a clothes horse
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Undergrad Collision KE converted to heat
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High School Can Electricity Replace Heat to Make Hot Air Rise?
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Graduate S = k ln W : ln : From Both Multiplicity and Integral ?
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Undergrad Newtons first law should not be termed an expression of inertia
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Undergrad Mastering Heat Capacity Equations for Accurate Temperature Control
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Graduate Non-sensical negative entropy? (grand canonical ensemble)
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High School Newton's third law to explain lift
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Undergrad Heat Transfer in Layered Walls: Will Ice Melt?
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Undergrad How long for rain to melt snow and ice?
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Graduate What temperature actually a measure of?
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Undergrad Zeroth law of thermodynamics and thermometers
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Graduate Where has all that energy gone to?
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Undergrad Understanding Adiabatic Compression
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Undergrad Infrared wave cooking vs microwave radiation
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Undergrad Convective and conductive heat transfer
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High School Can you prove Newton's Second Law from this experiment?
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High School Why Does an LPG Tank Freeze as Gas is Used? Explained
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Undergrad How Is Temperature Calculated in a Heated Copper Block?
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Graduate How can we accurately compare air flow data in an open system?
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Graduate What is the Temperature of an atom moving at the speed of light?
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High School Time to raise temperature of frozen body
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Undergrad What does high temperature mean?
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Undergrad Power distribution and heaters.
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Undergrad In a vacuum: steam sinks or evenly distributes?
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Graduate Thermodynamic Systems with Two Independent Variables: The Flaw in the 2nd Law
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Graduate First Law of Thermodynamics for Irreversible Processes
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Graduate Boltzmann Distribution with two gasses
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High School Why does liquid cool down when it evaporates?
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High School Question: Does Increasing Fluid Speed Increase Temperature?
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High School Is this a good rule of thumb for engine exhaust temperature
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High School My tankless home water heater wire is warm
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High School Why Does Hot Soup Create a Vacuum Effect?
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High School Temperature: Our body and the environment
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Undergrad How can I verify calculated heat loss?
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