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Graduate Where Is the Error in My Understanding of the Boltzmann Distribution?
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Undergrad Does Gravity wipe the increase in 'Entropy' slate clean
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Graduate Entropy change of an irreversible process
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Undergrad Relation between kinetic energy and temperature for hydrogen
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Graduate Does a Thermometer Truly Reflect Air Temperature in Kinetic Theory?
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Undergrad Can a vacuum environment lower the boiling point of water?
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Undergrad Thermodynamics, meaning of gamma
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Undergrad Difference between heat and work
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Undergrad Thermal Conduction of my Playstation 3 (Keeping it cool)
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Undergrad Where Can I Find Thermodynamic Tables for n-Pentane and n-Butane?
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Undergrad - Cellphone Tower Radiation - tomorrow i must decide
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Graduate Third law of thermodynamics and mixtures
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Graduate Confusion over melting & crystallization?
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Undergrad 10 calories for 1 calorie of food
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Graduate Microcanonical vs canonical vs grand canonical ensemble
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High School Surprising Benefits of Adding Salt to Ice/Water Mixture
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High School One force or two forces in Newton's third law?
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Graduate Solvent heat up due to gamma ray
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Undergrad What is the required thickness of insulation for a furnace roof equipment?
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Graduate Hoop stress in solid disc from thermal contraction
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Undergrad Compressing CO2 - Can Air Compressor Work?
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Graduate The adiabatic heat gradient is temperature dependent
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Undergrad How Does Linear Expansion Vary with Multiple Temperature Changes?
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Undergrad Using pressure and temperature to ventilate a room?
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Undergrad Window Fog Evaporation: Why Does It Happen?
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High School Does Temperature Increase Lead to More Moles According to Avogadro's Law?
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Undergrad Volume change when liquid goes to solid.
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High School Is Heat the Sole Factor in Rubber Band Strength?
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Graduate Understanding Heat Transfer in a Red Hot Wire Immersed in Water: An Analysis
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High School Specific Heat (The Very Concept)
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Undergrad Does gravity generate energy at least once?
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Undergrad Non uniform temperature in a gas
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Graduate COP in vapor compression refrigeration analysis
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Graduate What is the Meaning of Temperature at Equilibrium?
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High School Why does air rush into a vacuum?
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Undergrad Cup of hot tea, and I need it just *warm*
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Graduate Reversible Processes: Isothermal to Adiabatic Transition
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Undergrad Why is Air in Pneumatic Cylinders Pressurized so High?
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Graduate Understanding the Difference Between Heat and Thermal Energy
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High School Mysterious Freezing Patterns: What Causes Them?
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Undergrad Relation between thermal expansion and stress
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Graduate Is There Any Reversible Quasi-Static Process?
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Undergrad Perceptive Temperature Difference Between 0 ft and 9,000 ft
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Undergrad Efficient Energy Transfer from Heat?
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Undergrad Radiation that interacts with hydrogen
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Undergrad Fahrenheit 451 and activation energy
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Undergrad Understanding Boyle's Law: The Effect of Volume Increase at Constant Temperature
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Graduate Is the law of entropy radical or smooth?
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Undergrad I still don't understand heat and energy
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High School Maximum humidity in the air as a function of temperature
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Undergrad Chemical Reactions Producing Light and Heat
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Graduate Newtons second law for coupled oscillators
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Graduate A basic question about entropy and free energy
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High School Heating Blue/Yellow Glass: What Happens?
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Graduate Energy Interaction: Work Transfer in a Heated Oven
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Graduate Information is a form of energy?
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Undergrad Time-reversal invariance and irreversibilities
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Graduate What are weakly and strongly coupled system
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Undergrad Vap: Convert Vapor Volume to Density
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Undergrad Is there an ODE with only time dependence and constant position?
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Undergrad Heat transfer of hot metal immersed in water
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Graduate Non-relativistic vs Ultra-relativistic
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Graduate Ideal Gas Mixtures: Dalton vs Amagat Models
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High School What Happens to Atoms and Energy at Absolute Zero?
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Graduate Possible New Types of Radiation or Physical Fields?
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Undergrad Reversible and irreversible reactions
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High School More efficient to reheat water or keep it at constant temp.?
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Graduate Where Did the Energy Come From? A Physics Puzzle on Entropy and Magnetism
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Undergrad When can Boltzmann distribution be used?
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Undergrad Calculating Heat of Compression in a Fluid?
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Undergrad Calculating heat of compression?
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Undergrad Open,closed,and isolated systems.
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Undergrad Understanding Heat: The Relationship Between Radiation and Thermal Energy
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Undergrad Understanding Exothermic Reaction with a Catalyst - Tim's Questions
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Undergrad Why do different objects absorb and reflect different wavelengths of radiation?
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High School Units of principal specific heat
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High School How Is Energy Stored? Answers & Explanations
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High School Effect of air pressure on temperature
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Undergrad Cold Guitar - Strings go Sharp
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Graduate Violation of Newton's Third Law
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Undergrad Calculating Melting Time for 7.5g Ice Cube at 0°C
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Graduate Clock & Entropy: Is it Possible to Build?
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Undergrad Can Thermocouples Replace Steam Turbines for Nuclear Reactors?
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Undergrad Determining Constant Mass Flow Rate in a Compressed Air System
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Graduate Blackbody Radiation and Emissivity Explained
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High School Cold water rushing past heating element. Will the element feel hot?
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Undergrad Answer: Pressure Differentials in Double Glazing Units
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Graduate Thermodynamics: Heat - Understanding Energy Transfer & Internal Energy
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Graduate Gas cycle, rankine cycle, organic rankine cycle, kalina cycle, and all that
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Graduate Where Does Energy Go in Plastic Deformation of Materials?
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Undergrad How is ice a black body/almost a back body?
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Undergrad Can a Perfectly Insulated Thermos Keep Liquid at the Same Temperature Forever?
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Undergrad Work in mechanics and thermodynamics
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Undergrad Air pressure/temperature relationship
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Graduate What is the State Postulate and How Does it Relate to Thermodynamic Properties?
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Graduate Expansion of liquefied air to what volume when heated to 20 degrees C
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Graduate How Do They Further Cool Liquid Helium After Liquefaction?
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Graduate Carnot Refrigerator at Phase Boundry
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Undergrad The Significance of Fourier Number: Understanding Heat Conduction in Solids
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Graduate Thermodynamics of dehydrogenation
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