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Graduate Help Sort My Confusion on dH, TdS and dQ
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Undergrad What is the thermodynamics temperature scale?
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High School Are Toasters Heat Variable or Time Variable?
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Undergrad Constant Delta E-thermal in a given distance?
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High School ENIGMA: Why put a glass rod in coffee cup?
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Graduate Proving Ideal Gas Law: dU/dV and dH/dP at Constant T
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Undergrad Understanding the Temperature Difference of Metals and Other Objects
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Graduate Entropy increases in both the future and past?
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Graduate Entropy of interaction in the nuclei
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Undergrad Why Does Compressing Hydrogen Increase Explosion Risks?
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Graduate Temperature change in pipe of flowing gas
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Undergrad Will Our Buildings Eventually Collapse Due to Entropy?
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Graduate Physical significance of vdP (Thermodynamics)
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Graduate Converting Waste Heat to Electricity: An Assignment Exploration
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Undergrad Gas and Ocean: How Pressure Affects Expansion
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Graduate Experiment where Second Law is violated
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Graduate Max temperature attained by focusing sunlight?
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Graduate Radiation Cloud Explained: Physics, Water Vapor, Isotopes & Stability
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High School Investigating an Unexpected Ice Spike Formation
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Graduate Can someone help me understand enthelpy and free energy?
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Graduate Questions about engineering and turbulence
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High School What is the specific heat of seawater?
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Undergrad Nuclear disaster: radioactive radiation
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Graduate Gas of atoms and thermal light
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High School Can Explosions in the Cylinder Lead to Contamination?
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Graduate What is the statistical boundary for violating the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics?
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High School Thermodynamics of Gas: Work Done by vs. Work Done On
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High School Which Cup Will Sugar Dissolve Faster In? Why?
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High School Why Do Substances Expand On Heating? Molecular Explanation
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Graduate Enthelpy and it's use in Gibb's Free Energy
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Undergrad Experiment to measure the thermal conductivity of a material
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Graduate Optimizing Beer Temperature: A Scientific Approach
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Graduate Thermodynamic Exercise: Adiabatic Cylinder with Double Chamber and Piston
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Undergrad Why is the change in enthelpy 0 during an isothermal process?
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Undergrad How Did Scientists Explain the Sun's Energy Before Nuclear Fusion?
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Graduate Understanding Steam at High Pressures: Enthalpy and Volume Explained
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Undergrad Was debating about Elec. engineering and physics How about engineering physics?
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High School How Many Types of Temperature Measurement Are There?
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Undergrad Why does the low frequency radiation or wave can not travel
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Undergrad Notation of thermodynamics & heat
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Graduate Black body radiation verses spectral lines.
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Undergrad Object designed with low entropy
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Graduate How Does Pressure Affect Heat Capacity in Identical Systems?
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Graduate Thermodynamics of solids under extreme pressure
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Undergrad Electricity, Heat, and Energy - Quality & Conversion
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Undergrad Why Does a Rubber Band Get Warmer When Stretched?
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Graduate Help me understand Entropy & P's recurrence theorem
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Graduate Empirical evidence for gravitational field of EM radiation
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Disconnect: The Truth about Cell Phone Radiation - Is it Credible?
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Undergrad What is Energy with reference to Human energy and attraction of earth field.
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Undergrad Thermodynamics Hydrostatic Pressure as Function of Height Question
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Graduate Help Internal Energy of a Liquid
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Graduate How exactly does CO2 behave as a greenhouse gas?
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Undergrad Temperature due to translational energy of molecules?
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Graduate Efficiently Increase Tank Water Temps to 220F: Expert Tips
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Graduate Crookes's Radiometer: Thermal Transpiration Explained
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Undergrad The Science Behind Ideal Gases: Understanding Charles's Law vs. Boyle's Law
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High School How Fast Do Air Molecules Move and How Many Are There?
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Undergrad Do all objects absorb different wavelengths of light and convert it into heat?
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Undergrad Do we feel heat only in the form of infrared waves?
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Graduate The average energy = the most probable energy?
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Undergrad Can a vacuum of 1.5 Bar be used to lower the boiling point of liquid?
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Undergrad How do I calculate heat loss due to wind?
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Graduate What Are Black Body Assumptions in Deriving Spectrums?
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Undergrad Rate of Temperature Measurement (Effect of Salt)
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High School How much time will it take to heat something up?
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Graduate Computation of direct warming of atmosphere by burning oil
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Undergrad Free Expansion is non-spontaneous?
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High School Would a pop pop boat be more efficient without reservoir compression?
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Graduate Does life violate the 2nd law of thermodynamics?
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Graduate Hypothetical questions with a closed system
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Undergrad Why Ice Cubes Form Faster w/ Lukewarm Water & Melting Ice in Cold Weather
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Undergrad Equating solar power to usable heat
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High School Induction Heating Ice: How Does it Work?
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Graduate Entropy change in free expansion.
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Graduate Internal energy and thermodynamic entropy
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Graduate Endothermic reaction: where has the energy disapeared?
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Undergrad Understanding Entropy: Hot Water & Ice
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High School Temperature of Space: Is it Possible?
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Undergrad Water, humity, temperature questions
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Graduate Does chaos theory contend with the second law of thermodynamics?
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Undergrad Cheap Heating with Microwaves: Is it Possible?
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Undergrad Heating Metal Wire in Sand Bath - Is it Possible?
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Undergrad Can Turbines in Series Efficiently Harness Water Energy?
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Graduate Proving Thermodynamics of Ideal Gas at Constant Temp
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Undergrad How much would the earth heat up if all water turned to vapour?
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Graduate About solving heat equation in half plane
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Undergrad Why do gases cool on expansion?
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Undergrad RF radiation living near TV/radio tower
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Graduate Is the normal mode frequency of harmonic oscillator related to temperature?
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Undergrad Absolute Zero, about -273.15ºC, is the coldest known temperature
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Undergrad Calculations for raising temperature in specific amount of time
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Graduate Virial Theorem and Equipartition Theorem
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Graduate Closed Loop Hot/Cold: Create Water From Air
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Graduate Diffusion Coefficient for gases at different temperatures
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Undergrad What Does Fixed Volume Refer to in Thermodynamics?
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Graduate What exactly is the physics behind transition radiation and TR detectors?
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Undergrad Asynchronous motors - the heat of the rotor
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