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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
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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
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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?
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Undergrad Fundamental question about temperature
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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
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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
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Undergrad How to transfer cold energy instead of heat?
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High School Calculating Joules from Watts: 4000 Watts for 30 Seconds
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Undergrad Calorimetry(determination of specific heat capacity)
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Undergrad The physics behind the Le Chatelier principle ?
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Undergrad Energy Equations Driving Me Crazy
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High School How Heat Pumps & Refrigerators Work
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Graduate Understanding How H=U+PV is a State Function
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Undergrad Boyle's Law, does it hold true in a non finite container ?
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Undergrad Why are real life process irreversible
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Graduate Norton Transform on a Wheatstone Bridge
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Undergrad Thermal insulation and positive pressure
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Graduate What Are the Microstates Associated with a Thermodynamic State?
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Undergrad Keppler's third law and the speed of cellestial bodies.
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Undergrad Heat Transfer and Scientific Reasoning
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Undergrad Isn't heat production a kind of work?
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