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Undergrad What is the Correct Pressure of CO2 Gas Required to Carbonate 5 Gallons of Beer?
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Graduate Entropy, resistor in a temperature bath
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High School Where Does the Energy Come From for Motion Without External Forces?
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Graduate How can we achieve infinitesimal temperature difference during heat transfer
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Undergrad Factors affecting the internal energy
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Graduate Sublimation of Dry Ice in a Closed System
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High School What causes ice to stick together
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Undergrad Heat capacity of air at low temperatures
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High School Temperature & Heat: Why Iced Tea Takes Longer to Warm Up
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Graduate Thermal Radiation: What is Nonthermal Radiation?
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Undergrad What Determines the Temperature Inside My Car When Parked in the Sun?
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Graduate What is the relationship between volume, spacing of energy levels, and entropy?
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High School Understanding Newton's Third Law: How Forces Work on Different Objects
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Undergrad Can ice go below zero degrees C?
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Graduate Max Temperature: Physics Teacher & Quantum Mechanics Explained
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Graduate I was always told that EM radiation is a far field effect. Does this
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Undergrad 2D heat diffusion simulation with thermal insulators
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High School Does oily soup cool faster or slower?
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High School Evaporation/Condensation question
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Undergrad Is Heat or Cold Insulation More Energy Consuming?
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Graduate Understanding the Boltzmann Distribution - Integrating N(E) from 0 to Infinity
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Graduate Radiative Cooling: Insulated Box & Optical Cable Experiment
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Graduate Best explanation for 1-way entropy?
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Undergrad Effect of temperature on Entropy
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Graduate Is there a deeper connection between thermal and information entropy?
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Graduate Calculating RH and Heated Air Take-Up
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Undergrad Is Newton's first law a particular case of the second?
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Graduate Emissivity & Thermal Transmission
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Undergrad Variation of sea water temperature as a function of air, and solar intensity
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Undergrad Calculating Work W: when pdV or Vdp?
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Graduate Relative Humidity more than 100%
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Undergrad Time to reach thermal equilibrium and/or a steady state
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Undergrad Newton's third law of motion - why?
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Undergrad First law of thermodynamics in layman's term
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Undergrad Effects of the release of pressurized heated air
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Undergrad Bomb calorimeter and coffee cup calorimeter
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Graduate Is Ds/dt ≥0? Understanding the Concept of Positive Entropy per Time
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Undergrad Steam vs Fuly saturated air: Separation
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High School Does Heat Transfer During Phase Changes?
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Undergrad Why is cooling the gas necessary for efficient heat engines?
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Undergrad Phase Changes and internal energy
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Graduate Mechanisms for heating of water by microwaves
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Undergrad What is Energy in Thermodynamics ?
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Undergrad Energy to hold furnace to a specific time-temperature curve
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Undergrad Turning Heat into Power: Exploring Alternatives to Steam Energy
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Undergrad 2nd law of thermodynamics why?
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Undergrad Constant internal energy with volume change?
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Graduate Gas equation of state and shape of container
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Undergrad Stability of Products: Nuclear binding energy vs Enthelpy
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Graduate Why is a high permeability desirable for induction heating?
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Undergrad Fundamental question about thermal radiation
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Undergrad Can the heat equation apply to gases?
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Undergrad Absorption and solar radiation spectra
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Graduate About entropy near black hole(decrease or increases)
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Undergrad Shuttle/satellite re-entry temperature, simple question
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Undergrad How fast would a body reach thermal equilibrium ?
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High School Thickness of hot chocolate varying with temperature
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Undergrad Heat Transfer Coefs of My House
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High School What limits the heating capabilities of a room?
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Undergrad I have an engine cycle in mind looking for it's name
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Undergrad Heat or Absorbed Energy and EM Radiation / Conductivity
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Undergrad Water temperature change per minute
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High School Effect of temperature on increase in volume
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Undergrad State functions in thermodynamics
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Graduate Maser Heating: How Far & How Much?
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Undergrad What is the temperature in vacuum
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Undergrad What Topics Are Covered in a First-Semester Thermodynamics Course?
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High School Heat & Cold: Atomic Level & Beyond
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Undergrad How Is Enthalpy Change Possible Without Temperature Change in a Reaction?
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Undergrad Stirling Engine Theory - Mechanically Driven
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Graduate The impossibility of any life due to an expanding universe and entropy
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Graduate The Scale Factor & Universe Entropy: Examining Heat Death
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Undergrad Thermodynamics- total kinetic energy and rms velocity
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Undergrad Why can't thermal energy be converted completely to motion
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Undergrad Would This Be Deadly Radiation?
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Undergrad So, to answer the question:Clouds: Cooling or Warming Agents?
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Undergrad How can i calculate the exact amount of heat absorbed by a black paint
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Graduate Why does blackbody radiation exist?
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Undergrad Separation of water from air at high temperature
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Graduate Using capillary action to generate energy
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High School Why Aircraft with Jet Engines Form Cloud Trails
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Graduate Archimedes Screw: Power Generation in Pulsating Environment?
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Graduate Clausius inequality and irreversible heat transfer
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Undergrad Help with a Fractal based Computer radiator
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Graduate Do Accelerating Charges Always Emit Radiation?
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Undergrad How long to raise pool temperature
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Graduate If entropy always increases, how can information be conserved?
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Graduate Statistical Thermodinamics: how many ways to make a set of population?
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Undergrad Sun Radiation to Earth: What Percent Reaches Us?
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Undergrad How does a IR thermometer work?
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Graduate Black Body Radiation: Does it Occur in a Vacuum?
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Undergrad Liquid propane equilibration between tanks.
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Graduate Anti-matter and thermodynamics
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Graduate Another question on radiation of time varying arbitrary source.
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Graduate Brightness temperature calculation
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Graduate What is temperature in non-molecule substance?
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Undergrad Momentum as a function of temperature
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Undergrad Can Newton's Second Law be absolutely proven mathematically?
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Graduate Please explain Taylor expansion in radiation.
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Graduate Improving the temperature stability of a temperature controlled water bath
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