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Undergrad Heat Exchange Between Air & Water: 1 Cubic Meter Each

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Graduate Why Does Dipole Radiation Shift from Radial to Theta Hat Direction?

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Graduate Confusion about entropy and disorder

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Undergrad Examples of decreased entropy .

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Undergrad Enthelpy Change of Ice to Vapor - Show on Graph w/BTU's

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Graduate Closed systems and mass/energy transference

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High School How fast does hot air rise and disperse?

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Graduate Understanding Thermodynamics Concepts: Common Questions Answered - Test Prep

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Graduate Help Sort My Confusion on dH, TdS and dQ

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Graduate Can Countercurrent Exchange Improve Engine Efficiency?

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Undergrad Maximum efficiency = Carnot cycle

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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?

  • ank160
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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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