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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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Graduate Work done by a non-reversible heat engine

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Undergrad Energy required to thaw one gallon of ice

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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

  • C. McAlexande
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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

  • Mark D Larsen
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High School Does a vacuum have a temperature?

  • harp AP 2010
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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?

  • bobisstroud
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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

  • MK300
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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

  • LogicalAcid
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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

  • WilliamE.
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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

  • lalbatros
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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

  • Kalrag
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Undergrad How to calculate the time and distance needed to heat an object

  • thepok
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Graduate State Function Conditions in Isothermal, adiabatic

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Undergrad How much Gamma Radiation does Radium produce

  • Kalrag
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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?

  • Arham
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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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