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Graduate Work done by a non-reversible heat engine
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Undergrad A question about the relationship between MPG and engine TORQUE
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Undergrad Thermodynamic Irreversible Reactions
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High School Does temperature affect pitch?
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Undergrad Heat Loss From Sweating: Weight & Evaporation
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Graduate I've been thinking about blackbodies, and have become confused with
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Undergrad Is Internal Energy of Ideal Gas Really Only Dependent on Temperature?
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Undergrad Doubt in Fourier's Law of Heat conduction
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Graduate Quick question about radiation pressure?
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High School Why is my wrist watch sometimes cold, and sometimes warm?
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High School Air temperature & water freezing
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Undergrad Energy Change in Processes: Explanations Included
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High School Why Does a Pool Ball Stop Dead When Hit at a Straight Angle?
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High School Between heat & cold which prevails
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Graduate Derivation of Boltzmann Equation
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Undergrad Heating a Heat Engine - Efficiency Calculation
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Undergrad Pressures in front and behind LP fan on jet engine
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High School Does a vacuum have a temperature?
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Undergrad A pressurized can of sprayPaint
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High School Where to find Microwave Radiation?
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High School Trouble Understanding Newton's Third Law
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Undergrad How Does Heat Exchanger Effectiveness Impact Performance?
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High School Winter Fog: The Science Behind Earth's Loss of Warmth and the Formation of Fog
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High School Does low temperature effect bonding?
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Graduate Feynman Lectures and the Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics
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Undergrad Internal Energy: Evaporation & 1st Law of Thermodynamics
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Undergrad Entropy and enthelpy difference
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Undergrad Can Movement and Heat Unlock the Secrets of Time Travel?
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Graduate Do Black Holes Actually Possess Entropy?
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Undergrad Photosynthetically active radiation transmission
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Graduate Specific Volume of Boiling Liquid
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High School Temperature Definition & Calculation - What is T?
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Graduate What is the required density for nuclear fusion without the use of heat?
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Graduate Dependance of saturated vapour preassure of external preassure
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Undergrad Question about isothermal work why heat is not affected
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Undergrad Energy released in a gunshot explosion
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Graduate Does a perfect concave mirror act as a radiation heatpump
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Undergrad Take two pipes close together on a roof chimney. One comes from the
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Undergrad Heat Capacity of Air and Energy needed
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Undergrad Why does higher frequency radiation penetrate deeper?
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Graduate Can Internal Vibrations Affect Temperature and Specific Heat?
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Graduate Counting the number of configurations (Entropy)
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High School You can tell what the highest frequency of radiation an object will emit
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Undergrad Why do certain frequencies of radiation react with some things an not others,
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Graduate Radiation vs. conduction in thermal equilibrium
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Graduate How does life not violate conservation of entropy?
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Graduate What is the Mixing Paradox and its implications for entropy change?
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Graduate Understanding the Relationship Between Work and Heat in Thermodynamics
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High School Air temperature inside the car bonnet?
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Undergrad Why is specific heat capacity less?
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High School Why do molecules vibrate under higher temperatures?
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Undergrad Replacing Expansion Valve with Small Diameter Tube for Efficient Home AC Cooling
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High School Walk on Wet Sand: Sun & Heat Causes Drying
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Undergrad Does a heavier gas lose heat faster than a lighter gas
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High School What is Force in Newtonian Mechanics & Newton's First Law?
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Undergrad Harvesting energy from walking humans
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Graduate Trying to understand quasi-static processes
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Graduate Reversible/irreversible heat exchanges
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Graduate Looking for a picture of black body radiation from an oven
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Undergrad Thermal radiation from the sun
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Graduate How to calculate thermal vibration?
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Graduate The Fine Structure Constant and Hawking Radiation
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Graduate Reaching Absolute Zero: Methods to Achieve Superconductors
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Undergrad How to calculate the time and distance needed to heat an object
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Graduate State Function Conditions in Isothermal, adiabatic
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Undergrad How much Gamma Radiation does Radium produce
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Undergrad [pointless argument] Why are teleporters impossible
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High School Air temperature and water temperature
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Graduate Exergy Consumption: Meaning & Applications to Built Environment
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Undergrad Definition of thermal equilibrium?
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High School What is it exactly about an explosion that pushes the piston in an engine?
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Undergrad PV Graph Rev vs Irrev: Adiabatic Differences
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Graduate Reversible vs. pseudostatic processes
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Graduate Plotting Phase Diagrams (Temperature vs Composition)
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Undergrad Irreversible and isothermal work
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Undergrad How can entropy explain formation of soap bubbles
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Undergrad Infrared as Heat Waves: Why Only IR?
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Graduate Thermodynamics regarding ideal gases and the absolute zero.
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A practicle problem involving soup.
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High School Newton's Third Law and pushing against a wall
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High School How Does Friction Generate Heat?
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High School Can a Hollow Metallic Ball Withstand the Heat of the Sun's Radius?
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Graduate What is the significance of whole body dosage in radiation exposure?
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Undergrad Newtons second law perspective problems
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Undergrad Simulation of the sun's effect on temperature change on the ground surface
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Undergrad How Does Raising Air Pressure in a Flask Affect Temperature and Maximum PSI?
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High School Does heat independently cause Infrared radiation?
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High School Discover the Science Behind Colour-Changing Pizza Box Stickers
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High School Does LED TV Energy Usage Vary with Color?
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Undergrad Why is gasoline preferred over diesel for cars?
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Undergrad Highest Temperature: Is There a Limit?
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Undergrad How does the heating process work and can it be reversed?
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Undergrad Solving PV=nRT for Solids - How to Determine Temp?
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Undergrad Thermodynamics - Brayton Cycle
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Undergrad Enthelpy change for different processes.
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Graduate Calculating Nitrogen Specific Volume for Scientists
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Graduate The Incompatibility of the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics and Quantum Fluctuations
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Graduate Solving the Steffan-Boltzman Law: Transfer of Power from Left to Right Plate
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Graduate Degrees of Freedom of a Diatomic Gas: 5 or 7?
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