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Undergrad Explain Kepler's 1st Law without Math, Momentum/Energy
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High School Where is the Hottest Part of a Flame?
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High School Thermal Energy vs Heat: Understand the Difference
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Undergrad Can 100 Watts of Electricity Boil a Liter of Water in an Insulated Container?
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Graduate Internal energy and state functions
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Undergrad Carnot refrigerator and II law of Thermodynamics
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Undergrad A Level Physics Help: Questions Answered & Op Amp Study Guide
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Undergrad Thermal condution? little confusing can u to remove my doubt.
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Undergrad Container filled with gas - interaction between the molecules
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Undergrad Spontaneous Process and Irreversibility
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Graduate How much liquid nitrogen is needed to maintain constant evaporation?
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Undergrad Calculating Heat Transfer to Ideal Gas During Isochoric Process
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Undergrad What is the most efficient small-scale low-temperature heat engine?
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Graduate Heat engine with with state change and no cooling
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Graduate Thermodynamical State: Questions & Answers
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High School Are waves always associated with heat?
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Undergrad The Mystery of The Stove Top Heating Element
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Undergrad Is Newtons law of cooling related to the zeroth law of thermodynamics?
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Graduate Newton's second law if mass changes
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High School Would a 70w halogen bulb produce less heat than 60w normal bulb?
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Undergrad Color temperature of halogen lamp vs intensity
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Undergrad Understanding Heat: The Role of Infrared Radiation and Mechanical Motion
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Undergrad Why is the Internal Energy of a Gas nCvdT?
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Graduate Is It Possible to Generate Electricity from Atmospheric Heat?
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Graduate Is Frequency : Temperature Angular Momentum : Entropy ?
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Graduate How can I find the adiabatic equation for real gases?
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Undergrad Latent heat vaporization vs fusion
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Undergrad Can Specific Heat Capacity Be Negative? - Physical Meaning Explained
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Undergrad Cooling of Spheres: Why is it Different?
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Undergrad Is it possible to reach absolute zero and still be affected by gravity?
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High School U, V, and T: Internal Energy, Specific Volume, and Temperature
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Undergrad Gibbs Free Energy: Explained & Explored
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Graduate Why is the 2nd law of thermodynamics equivalent to conservation of momentum?
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Graduate Is a Zero Efficiency Machine Possible and Thermodynamically Stable?
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Graduate Change in Enthelpy with no Heat Exchange?
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High School Higher efficiency - 2 stroke or 4 stroke diesel engine?
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Undergrad What is the Relationship Between Coefficients for Thermal Expansion?
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Undergrad What temperature F does water freeze at 65 PSI ?
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Undergrad How does an oversized evaporator coil affect humidity removal in an A/C system?
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High School What exactly happens at Absolute Zero
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Undergrad How Do Gas Molecules Lose Velocity Upon Colliding with Container Walls?
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High School Thermal Expansion: Elongation Explained
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Undergrad What is the most effective way to measure flame temperature?
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Graduate Calculate Min/Max Gas Absorption Sensitivity w/ Beer-Lambert's Law
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Graduate Is Entropy Change of a Real Gas Dependent on Path in Reversible Processes?
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Undergrad What causes the size of a cavity to change when a metal plate is heated?
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Undergrad I want to heat up my room, would a fan towards the radiator work?
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Undergrad Newton's Third Law in Inelastic Collisions
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High School Conversions and transfers of energy
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High School How to find heat produced from friction?
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Undergrad How Fast Would a Car Be Moving with the Same Energy as a Pound of Body Fat?
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High School Does a ring contract faster than a disc?
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Undergrad How much water is needed to raise the humidity in my house?
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Undergrad General Question Regarding Internal Energy
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Undergrad Ex of chaos->order circular patterns in liquid chemical reaction
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Undergrad What Does Extensity Mean in Endoreversible Thermodynamics?
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High School Power of a hot plate and actual heat power delivered
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Undergrad What is the heat absorption of apples in a hot water bath?
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Undergrad Temperature of a body exposed to sunlight
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Graduate Black body radiation, question arising from a book
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Graduate Opposite of Absolute Zero? Absolute Hot?
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Undergrad Resistor Heat Dissipation (with imaginary numbers)
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High School Heat of Transformation: Does It Affect Temperature?
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Undergrad Why is steam condensed in thermal power cycle?
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Undergrad Relationship between work, internal energy and enthelpy.
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Undergrad Ideal Gases: Intermolecular Forces & Kinetic Energy
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Undergrad Combining gaseous spaces with PV= mRT
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Undergrad Calculate heating element size
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High School Newtons third law and collision of bodies
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Graduate Physical appearance of maximum entropy
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High School Wondering about how heat from light will travel
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High School Inflating objects by evaporating urine
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Graduate Free Energy Thought Experiment Question
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Graduate Can high energy radiation create momentum?
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Graduate Van Der Waals EOS Shortcomings & Corrections
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Graduate Does this model of the casimir effect extracting energy have flaws?
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Graduate Difference between isobar and isochor heat capacity
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Undergrad Maintaining 120 Degrees on a Chrome Roller: Electric vs Water Heating Solutions
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Undergrad Coloumbs law and Newtons third law
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Undergrad Calculating Car Engine Torque to Plotting the Torque Curve
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Graduate Batteries and Radiation: Exploring the Kinetic and Electromagnetic Theories
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Graduate What is the concept of rf heating in a Paul trap?
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High School Temperature measurement in a room
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High School Can Temperature Sensing Prevent Milk from Boiling Over?
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Undergrad Temperature drop in an expanding gas?
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Graduate Understanding Free Energy in Fuel Cell Reactions
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Graduate Gray body vs Black body, a few questions
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Undergrad What is the best material to use for holding heat in a box?
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Graduate Entropy vs Universal Expansion
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Undergrad Is MW/hr a Valid Unit of Measurement for Power?
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Undergrad What is the Definition of Kp in the JANAF Thermodynamic Tables?
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High School Why is it colder on mountain plateaus?
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High School Cheap and relatively efficient insulated container
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High School Which Metal Stays Cooler on Spoon Handles: Aluminum or Steel?
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Undergrad Temperature needed to freeze moving water
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Undergrad Sherwood number - effective and molecular diffusion
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Graduate Does temperature in static particles increase due to gravity?
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Undergrad PV diagrams for heat engines are legitimate ?
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Graduate A system is always in a well-defined state, so the entropy is constant?
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Undergrad How long does it take to produce H2 in a closed beaker
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