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Undergrad Richard Feynman's description of Fire
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Undergrad Hello intelligent peopleI need a little help8 liter of air
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Undergrad The Greenhouse Effect vs. Blackbodies vs. Global Warming?
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Undergrad Newton's second law and Springs
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Need help rigging something to chill soil.
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Undergrad Concentrating radiation from blackbody with lens
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Undergrad How can energy lost due to expansion be minimized in heat engines and ships?
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High School Hi,I'm in high school and have been given an assignment regarding
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Undergrad Freezing Liquid with Compressed Nitrogen - Is it Possible?
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Graduate Is there a difference between statistical and thermodynamic entropy?
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Undergrad SLOT second law of thermodynamics
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Graduate Does the first law of thermodynamics apply to the cosmological universe?
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Undergrad How Can I Calculate Rocket Exhaust Temperature?
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High School Why is black colour good absorber and radiator of heat ?
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Graduate Feed Water Heater Energy Balance: Closed Systems
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Undergrad Isn't second law of thermodynamics wrong?
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High School Why Copper is a Better Heat Conductor than Iron
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Undergrad Density and the ideal gas equation
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Graduate Can green plants reverse entropy?
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Graduate Entropy vs Life: Does Nature Use Life to Increase Entropy?
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Graduate Boltzmann Equation-where'd the 3 come from?
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Graduate Transient analysis in heat transfer
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Undergrad Can EM Radiation Frequency Be Changed and Who Carries Different Frequencies?
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Graduate Can radiation pressure drive a piston? A thought experiment
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Undergrad Which Burns More? Water or Steam at 100°C
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Undergrad How much energy could be collected from such a setup?
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Graduate Clarification on thermodynamics concepts of state function, exact differential
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Undergrad Entropy of Ice Cube vs Room Temp Water
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Undergrad Is Mass Transport the Same as Forced Convection in Thermal Engineering?
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Graduate Thermodynamics as probability rather than unbreakable law?
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Graduate Something I don't understand about work, heat, and entropy.
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Graduate Space Time Frame Drag Engine Concept
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Undergrad Can you explain the 2nd law of thermodynamics using closed isolated systems?
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Undergrad How to find temperature and time
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Graduate Solving 2D Diffusion Problem: Analytical Solution Needed
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Undergrad Sources of EM radiation in organisms?
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Graduate How Does Entropy Change in a Water-Ice Bath with Vapor Introduction?
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Graduate First law of thermodynamics applied to a submarine
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Undergrad Is this suitable for learning thermodynamics/statistical mechanics?
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Undergrad Calculate the temperature on the other side of the plate.
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Graduate Rate of emission from a black body
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Graduate Clarification on heat propagation
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Graduate Do all bodies radiate at all frequencies?
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Undergrad Newton's second law clarification - derivative, constant mass
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Undergrad Temperature/heat transfer in space
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Undergrad Does Heat Energy Have Mass and Affect Gravity?
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Graduate Converting Lumens to Joules for 1cm Plastic/Glass Sphere
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Graduate How is the consumption of free energy defined and measured in thermodynamics?
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Undergrad Calculate kinetic energy/ speed per particle at given temperature
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High School Thermodynamics: Understanding Temperature
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Undergrad How are experiments affected when gravity's changed, compared to Earth?
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Undergrad Find a Reliable Temperature Sensor for Cold Environments - 200K Capable!
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Undergrad The concepts behind different heat transfer equations?
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High School Most efficient window for an air conditioning unit?
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Graduate How to make a radio frequency heating apparatus?
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Undergrad Geothermal Energy: Drilling to Magma from Platforms at Sea
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Undergrad Quick Question About Heat the Volume of Water
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Undergrad Real Gas PV Curve: Volume Explained
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Undergrad Can Water Vaporize Without Affecting Other Components?”
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Undergrad New to the forum - Stored energy to melt ice
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Undergrad Thoughts on Alien weapons' technology in Crysis
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Undergrad Increase in entropy without change in temperature
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Graduate Solve Gas Expansion Problem: CO2 Tank, Expansion Chamber & Ambient Heat
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Graduate Help in derivation on a trig function in dipole radiation.
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Undergrad What Is Energy: Unveiling the Mystery
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Graduate Energy savings with space elevator
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High School Pushing a cart, using Newton's Third Law
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Undergrad Satellite Burning: Why Does It Occur?
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Undergrad Newton's Third Law on a Inclined Plane
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Undergrad Hearing radio through gas heater possible?
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Undergrad Seebeck Effect a bit of a puzzler
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Undergrad Specific heat capacity and themal conductivity
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Undergrad Is There Heat Transfer in a Stirling Engine's Constant Volume Process?
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Undergrad Thermodynamics, positive pressure argument
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Graduate Derivation of the law of the increase of Entropy
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Graduate I want formulae for Induction heating
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Undergrad Heat Exchange in airconditioner
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Undergrad Which formulation of Newton's second law is more fundamental?
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Graduate Confused about entropy trumping evolution on universal scale
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Undergrad What Is the True Nature of Energy?
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Graduate What Textbooks Cover the Boltzmann Transport Equation in Statistical Mechanics?
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Undergrad Temperature at the centre of the earth
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High School Difference B/t Waves & Radiations
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Graduate Understanding Shock Waves and Entropy in Fluid Dynamics"
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Undergrad Energy losses in cables: What is the ohmic loss?
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Undergrad Combustion explained by physics
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Undergrad Alpha Particles: Is 'Radiation' a Misnomer?
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Graduate Analytical Solutions for 1D Transient Heat Conduction in Cylindrical Coordinates
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Graduate How Do You Convert Spectral Irradiance into Heat Flux?
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Undergrad Heat Engines, Entropy and Counter-Intuitiveness
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Undergrad Heat / Smoke / Pressure in a confined box?
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Graduate How Does Wave-Particle Duality Challenge Our Understanding of Determinism?
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High School Large Ice Mold (taming the beast)
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Graduate Heat transfer coefficient of water and air with tank problem
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High School Isochoric Processes: What's the Story?
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Undergrad Examples of isothermal processes in everyday life
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High School Solar Panel Efficiency: Temperature Effect
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Undergrad Best Heat Absorbing Material for an Underground Heat Sink
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Undergrad Understanding Energy Equations: Mass, Gravity & Velocity
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Graduate Evolution of Configurational Entropy
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