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Graduate Net thermal radiation from an object outside at night
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Graduate What is the significance of enthalpy in constant pressure systems?
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Graduate Quasistatic Process Explained: What is dH=δQ+Vdp?
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Graduate Maximizing Solar Radiation Heat Transfer on High Altitude Materials
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Undergrad Heating with Microwaves: An Efficient Way to Warm Your Home?
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Undergrad Experiment with heated stretched springs.
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High School Motor bike engines acting as a gyroscope keeping the bike upright
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Undergrad Question About Cooling Rate in Gun Barrels
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Undergrad What Is a Perpetual Machine? | Thermodynamics Explained
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Undergrad Can adiabatic process be isothermal process?
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High School Calculating Volume & Pressure of Big Air Piston
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Graduate Can Entropy Be Reduced in a Spontaneous Thermodynamic Process?
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Graduate What happens to entropy when mixing two gases with different properties?
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High School From Celsius to Kelvin - why +273?
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Undergrad Designing a Heat-Retaining Coat for Surviving -30°C Weather
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Undergrad Pool heat gain by solar radiation versus heat loss by evaporation
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High School Impurities Impact Melting & Freezing: Explained
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Undergrad Newton's Third Law and Forces in an Elevator
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Graduate Is Brownian Motion Linked to Molecular Kinetic Energy Changes?
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Undergrad Latent Heat of Vaporization /w Temperature
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Undergrad What would the temperature limit of heating metal block?
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High School How Much Energy is Spent Holding 1kg for an Hour?
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Graduate Energy levels of nucleus in emitting radiation in MRI
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Undergrad Radiation from microwave ovens
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Undergrad Does microwave radiation linger inside a microwave oven?
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Undergrad Induction heating theory clarification
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Graduate What if we created plasma that ionizes at room temperature?
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Graduate Why Rayleigh-Jeans Law Assumes E Field in Cavity is Zero
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Undergrad Polytropic Processes: Reversible vs Irreversible
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High School Understanding Specific Heat Units (hg-C)
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Graduate Calculating Heat: How to Apply Calculus for Accurate Results
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Undergrad (Thermodynamics) Why Do I Use U For Constant Volume and H For Constant Pressure
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Undergrad Radiation in particle accelerator
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Undergrad Equation measuring heat with temperature change, time and specific heat
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Undergrad Radiation emitted by particles in accelerator
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Undergrad Understanding Enthalpy and Temperature in Ideal Gas Systems
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Graduate Questions about examples of why entropy is NOT disorder
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Undergrad When does the change in enthelpy=change in internal energy?
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Undergrad How Radiation rays ionize the air?
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Undergrad Technical question about nucleation of beer?
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Undergrad Pressure of a gas in atmospheres at different temperatures
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Graduate Finding beta for the boltzman distribution.
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Undergrad Newton's Third Law in an Elevator
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Graduate How fast do you have to heat air to create a shock wave?
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Graduate Interaction between blackbodies in relation to the second law
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Undergrad Variation of youngs modulus with temperature
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High School Does Burning Material Create Ash and Smoke?
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Graduate Induction heating of a cylinder
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Undergrad How Does Switching the Battery and Galvanometer Affect a Wheatstone Bridge?
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Graduate Reference for the Temperature Dependent Speed of Sound in Common Solids
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High School Chloroform Expansion at 5°C-41°F to 35°C-95°F
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Graduate First law of thermodynamics and quasi-static processes
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Undergrad Ideal gas specific heat coefficients
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Undergrad Heat exchange between body and environment
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High School What are pingos and how do they form?
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Undergrad Does compressing a gas mean the temperature has to change?
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Undergrad What is the Most Effective Angle for Blowing on Hot Coffee to Cool it Down?
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Undergrad Caculating heat loss from cooling fins?
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Graduate Reducing the entropy of a closed system
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Graduate Pressure dependence of the Heat Capacity
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Graduate Calculate Gas Density at Vacuum & Water Content
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Undergrad Enthelpy change of an isothermal expansion at constant pressure.
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Undergrad Is Energy Lost During Weight Lifting?
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Undergrad Creating a Cooled CPU System for Over-Clocking
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Graduate H20 Molecular shift - what is the initial state just below the Dew Point
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Graduate Phase diagram contradiction: why does vapor exist?
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Graduate Derivation of sackur-tetrode equation
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Graduate Boltzmann distribution of two different gases
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Undergrad Pressure drops and Temperature changes
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Graduate Interface conditions for heat transfer
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Graduate What causes emissivity to be less than 1?
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Graduate What is tha graph of carnot cycle
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Undergrad Do Particles Stop Radiating at Absolute Zero?
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Undergrad How to Calculate Volumetric Flow Rate from Pressure Change in a Chamber?
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Undergrad Can't understand what's thermal equilibrium
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High School Heat Capacity Database: Find Common Substances Data
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Undergrad Energy balance in hydraulic cylinder
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Graduate How do you head up a big can of plastic?
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Graduate Development of a thermodynamic property database hydrocarbons
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Graduate Periodic heating of a glass of liquid
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Undergrad Can Newton's Third Law Of Motion Be Violated?
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Undergrad Zeroth law of thermodynamics in terms of heat
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Graduate Understanding Entropy,Enthelpy,Spontanity with example
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High School Energy convertion - kinetic to heat
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Undergrad Is my physics teacher mad? (global warming related)
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Graduate Carnot's Theorem & Irreversible Heat Engines
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Graduate Why Does the Van der Waals Equation Square the Number of Moles?
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Undergrad The highest temperature reachable using the solar light as an energy source
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Undergrad Metal alloys thermal conductivity
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Graduate Radial temperature gradient of a black hole
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Graduate Entropy changes: Thermal energy to work and (some) back to Thermal energy
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Graduate Molecular phase shift in a non-enclosed area – how ?
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Undergrad Control Of Joule Heating Effect In Tungsten Wire.
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Graduate Using enthelpy when pressure is not constant
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Undergrad Newtons third law and elevators
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Undergrad Calculate Specific Heat Capacity HELP
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High School Physics problem.Only logic,no formulas.
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Undergrad Pressure rise due to heat in a tire
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High School Efficient Cooling Solutions for Small Spaces - Closet Size: 1.47m x 75cm x 58cm
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Graduate Early Universe: Heat without Mass? | Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking
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