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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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Undergrad Convection heat transfer coefficients ?

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High School Estimation of 1000w heating element contact temperature

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Undergrad I don't understand q = mc delta T

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Graduate Difference between enthelpy and internal energy.

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Undergrad Harnessing Underground Magma for Power: A New Idea?

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Graduate Is entropy the volume in phase space of energy E or LESS than E?

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Graduate Using Enthelpy to define flow work for a non-ideal gas

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Undergrad OUNT OF HEAT ABSORBED AND GIVEN OUT BY REFRIGERANT IN HEAT PUMP

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Graduate A 3D harmonic oscillator is thermal equilibrium

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High School Aviation, Temperature vs. Density Question

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Undergrad Specific heat capacity and temperature

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Undergrad Calculations of heat transfer in a tank system

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Undergrad Potential temperature of a fresnel lens focal point

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Undergrad Difference between Temperature and Internal Energy

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Undergrad Vacuum Insulation: Calculating Amount for 1 Bar

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High School Thermal Insulation for Keeping Liquid Cold - 65 characters

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Graduate Thermodynamic simple conceptual question

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Graduate Heat content as a state function?

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Undergrad Newton's Third Law: Pushing 20kg Box w/140N Force

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Graduate Is a computational oracle physically possible?

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Graduate Temperature changes of gas under centrifugal acceleration

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Undergrad How Synchrotrons Produce X-Rays: A Layman's Explanation

  • Billy70
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Graduate Adiabatic expansion of real vs ideal gas

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Undergrad Heat with relation to work or energy

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Graduate Blackbody radiation with frequency filter

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Undergrad PV^K = C; K is always the same for a given gas, is the same true for C?

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Undergrad The first Law of Thermodynamics seems confusing to me.

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Graduate Flame test and black (or gray) body

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Undergrad Weird ideal gas equation question

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Undergrad Question about the Spectrum of Radiation Reaching the Earth

  • Simon777
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Graduate What Are the Current Unresolved Problems in Thermodynamics?

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High School Black surface absorbs more heat but what if it's completely dark?

  • ExNihilo
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Undergrad Fundamental question about temperature

  • phinds
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Undergrad Adiabatic Expansion of Gas: Does the Number of Moles Affect the Calculation?

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High School Temperature at different altitudes

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High School Is Heat Considered to Have Mass?

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Graduate Thermodynamics: Where exactly does microscopic turn to macroscopic?

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Graduate Adiabatic piston-cylinder problems always constant temperature?

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High School Heat mat, amount of heat produced?

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Undergrad Understanding the Alfvén Engine

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Graduate Entropy of 1d harmonic oscillator

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Graduate Question about Planck's Law and temperature/light emission

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Undergrad Thermal Physics Joke: Is It as Silly as It Seems?

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Undergrad Does Heating Air First Improve Dehumidifier Efficiency?

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Graduate Vacuum pump and creation of vacuum

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Undergrad We often here the term in thermodynamics that a particular phase

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High School Can we say that bad conductors are good absorbersof heat?

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Graduate Air temperature in soda bottle pumped to 8 atm

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Undergrad Thermodynamics: Steam Power Plant

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Undergrad Understanding the Voltage Changes in an Unbalanced Wheatstone Bridge

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Graduate Earth Blackbody Temp: How Albedo Affects Result

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Graduate Power generation via thermal differences

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Graduate Change in enthelpy at constant VOLUME

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Graduate Contradiction in the laws of thermodynamics?

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Undergrad Formula regarding insulator thickness, and surface area covered?

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High School Why does heat reflect sunlight? (ie: mirages)

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Graduate What causes blackbody radiation

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Undergrad Is this an energy conversion error?

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High School Can an object gain heat without expanding?

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Graduate Why specific heat at near critical point equals differentiate twice Gibbs energy?

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Undergrad Energy requirements for heating a liquid under different pressures

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Graduate Heat integral and molar heat capacity?

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High School Why isn't temperature a vector quantity?

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Undergrad Calculating Heat Loss via Radiation Transfer

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Graduate Can You Measure Temperature Without Completing the Circuit with a Thermocouple?

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Graduate Quesitons on Gas firing a lab furnace

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Undergrad Spring constant and temperature

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Graduate Why can some forms of energy be relative?

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Undergrad Pulling a Piston - Thermodynamics Question

  • Tabeia
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Undergrad Is Internal Energy Always Constant in Thermodynamic Systems?

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Graduate Surface area dependence of radiative heat transfer

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Undergrad Can a Vortex Tube be Made Larger for Cooling Purposes?

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Undergrad What Causes the Deflection of Electromagnetic Waves?

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Undergrad Does the Silver Wire Net Really Increase Gas Range Efficiency?

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Graduate Is Entropy More Than Just a Statistical Measure of Disorder?

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Undergrad Sound and Heat - Whats the difference

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Graduate Heat death the ultimate endgame?

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Graduate Thermodynamic entropy of system of any size.

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Can Geothermal Energy Power Our Planet?

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Graduate Gas Expansions: Monoatomic vs Diatomic - Adiabatic Curve Slope Comparison

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High School Power & Temperature: How Does Power Relate?

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High School The kelvin scale - how could it have been defined?

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Graduate Understanding Carnot's Cycle & Reversible Processes

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Undergrad Relation betwn P,V,T in the given case

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Undergrad Violation of Newtons Third law

  • TheBlackNinja
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Undergrad How to transfer cold energy instead of heat?

  • nution
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High School Calculating Joules from Watts: 4000 Watts for 30 Seconds

  • math111
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Undergrad Calorimetry(determination of specific heat capacity)

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Undergrad The physics behind the Le Chatelier principle ?

  • karen_lorr
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Undergrad Energy Equations Driving Me Crazy

  • GBT
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High School How Heat Pumps & Refrigerators Work

  • anigeo
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Graduate Understanding How H=U+PV is a State Function

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