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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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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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