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High School Can microwave radiation penetrates building materials?
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Undergrad Help with a thermo derivation?
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Undergrad Classical Thermodynamics for Statistical Mechanics
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Undergrad What orbital pattern occurs when two bodies of equal mass orbit each other?
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Undergrad How Does Pressure Inside Earth Maintain Its High Temperature?
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Graduate Cause of the Soret Effect/Thermophoresis?
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Undergrad Understanding Heat: Radiative, Convection & Conduction
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Undergrad I can't figure out why this happens with pure substances. My book is a
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Undergrad Does evolution violate the second law of thermodynamics?
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Undergrad Specific heats relating to ideal gas properties?
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Undergrad A general curve for the coffee cup problem.
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Graduate Entropy & Order: A Puzzling Paradox
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Graduate Why Does Early Universe Have Low Entropy?
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Undergrad If temperature gradients cause wind in air, how about in zero gravity?
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Graduate Diffuse microwave/far infrared heating as a replacement for space heaters?
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High School How can Dirty clothes effect the Insulation?
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High School Why Does Temperature Change on Mountains as You Get Closer to the Sun?
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Undergrad If light causes radiation pressure, what about sound waves?
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Graduate How Much Thermal Energy is Required for a Four Month Space Mission?
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Undergrad Rock On Rod Stewart: Am I a Universe-Rule-Changer?
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Graduate How does the Boltzmann statistic relate to systems at high temperatures?
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Graduate Is the rate of entropy of a closed system constant?
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Graduate EM radiation => Self propagating wave ?
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Undergrad Applied heat and thermodynamics.
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Undergrad Enthelpy vs. Internal Energy (Thermodynamics)
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High School What is Entropy and How Does It Impact Our World?
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Undergrad Thermal Equilibrium: Conditions and Application
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High School Discover the Basics of Blackbodies: Definition and Properties Explained
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Graduate How Does Entropy Differ Between System Equilibrium and Individual States?
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Undergrad Kelvin Temperature - Celsius Temperature Change
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High School Using physics to produce heat - need some ideas
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Undergrad Can gas pressure and density be reduced without changing temperature?
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Graduate Can i expand non-ideal gas reversibly isomermally?
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High School Temperature of Gas: What's Happening to Atoms/Molecules?
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Graduate Ideal Gas: Non-Uniform Conditions Explained
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Undergrad What Actually Is Energy?
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Graduate When will the entropy of universe(an isolated system) stop increasing?
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Graduate Why ds=0 only in a steady rev. process?
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Graduate Understanding Pressure Variation with Altitude in a Horizontal Slab of Air
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Undergrad Quick Internal Energy Question
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High School Experiment with Bottle: Hot Air, Freezer & Pressure
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Graduate Resolving the Paradox of Entropy and Energy
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Undergrad What Variables are Zero in Different Thermodynamic Conditions?
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Undergrad Can a Real-World Carnot Engine Achieve Carnot Efficiency?
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Graduate Entropy & Enthelpy - A Weird Deduction from Class
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Undergrad No change in entropy of the system+surroundings in reversible process.Really?
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Graduate Puzzled: why is this even linear? Must it be? Looking for clarification
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Undergrad Physics Project involving ice, gases, and global warming
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Graduate Open & Closed/Thermodynamic proofing
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Graduate Contradiction/breach 2nd law? Simply with carnot engine + negative temperature
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Graduate Estimation of diffuse and direct radiation starting from the global radiation
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Graduate Constant volume Specific heat and internal energy relationship in nonideal gas.
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Undergrad Measuring Heating Power at High Temperatures
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Graduate Solvation Heat Pump Introduction | Thermodynamics Understanding
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Undergrad How can air displacement balance out forces in Newton's third law?
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Undergrad A few questions on Thermodynamics
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Graduate University thermodynamics fundamental equation/identity derivation.
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High School Energy Conversion: KWH/M2, MWH/CM2 & WATT/M2
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Graduate Heat from an infinite reservoir?
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High School What Technologies Can Supply High Temperatures and Where Are They Needed?
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Graduate Partition function in Statistical Physics
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High School How does a fan cool your skin, exactly?
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Graduate Can atoms reach absolute zero energy and what happens then?
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Undergrad The Physics of Le Chatelier's Principle
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Undergrad Thermal expansion of a metal round disk with hole in the middle
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High School What is the difference between adding heat and adding cold?
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Undergrad Quasi equilibrium and non flow reversible in a simpler way?
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High School What is the amount of energy released from an exploding firecracker?
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Undergrad Questions RE: radiation pressure
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Graduate Rectennas and 2nd law of thermodynamics
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Graduate Maximal Entrop, Temperature & Energy Transfer
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Undergrad Temperature of Water in a Moving Plane
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High School Why is it that things feel ''hot''?
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Undergrad (Hopefully) simple thermodynamics question
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Graduate Differentials in the context of thermodynamics
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Graduate Zeh: Basics of Basics of Thermodynamics, yet really confused
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Undergrad Seeking Info on Plasma Propulsion Engine Design
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Graduate 100% Efficient Transfer of Energy
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Undergrad Thermodynamics Basics: Questions Answered
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Undergrad Natural-Free Convection between Vertical Plates
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Graduate Understanding Deviations in Wien's Law for Long Wavelengths
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Graduate Can Entropy of an Ideal Gas Decrease?
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Undergrad Free expansion and adiabatic process
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Undergrad How does a laser heat up a material?
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High School What's the difference between isothermal and adiabatic processes?
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Undergrad Decreasing Ambient Heat w/ Heat Sink
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High School How Does a Thermostat Activate Heating?
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Graduate Thermodynamics issue with absorption heat pumps
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Graduate What caused the increase in entropy after the Big Bang?
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Undergrad Schaums Outline: Entropy Ques - Tmp Not Constant
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Graduate Flywheel Energy Storage and small engine
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Undergrad Problem with Newtons second law
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Undergrad Effect of air flow on temperature inside box
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Undergrad Water Temperature gain calculation
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Undergrad What determines the specific heat capacity of a given substance?
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Undergrad Black Body Radiation: Info for Non-Quantum Physicists
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Undergrad Brain-stroming discussion questions
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High School What is Infared and Ultraviolet radiation responsible for?
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Graduate Can a Black Body Emit Only One Photon After Being Hit By a Single Photon?
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Undergrad Factors Effecting Boil-Off of Liquid
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