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Graduate First order phase transition (van der waals gas)

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Undergrad Molar heat capacity for an ideal monoatomic gas

  • Sunny Kumar
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Undergrad Energy Conversion: Where Does the Energy Come From?

  • elitewarr
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High School How can we define thermodynamics

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High School Question about Newtons third law

  • yaseen shah
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Undergrad A question about heat transfer

  • frensel
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High School Salt Melting Ice: Heat & Cooling Effects

  • cragar
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Undergrad KE of Gas Molecules: n, KbT, U, and 3/2R

  • RougeSun
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Undergrad Why Do Vacuum Tubes in CRT TVs Get Hot Despite the Vacuum?

  • ISX
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Undergrad Disorder: Is it really increasing?

  • Deepak Kapur
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Undergrad Why ideal gases are not used in refrigerator?

  • kthouz
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Undergrad Entropy Confusion: Feynman's Explanation and My Question

  • gadje
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Undergrad An extremely Novice energy question

  • khz
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Undergrad Is heat's velocity constant like light's?

  • dirtyd33
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Graduate Computer/System Security + Sencond Law of thermo

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Undergrad Gibbs Free Energy: Unlocking Available Work Potential

  • gladius999
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Undergrad Heat Transfer & GPM: Can High Flow Coolant Overheat Engines?

  • ISX
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Undergrad Carnot efficiency: is heat always positive?

  • danrochester
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Undergrad What's wrong with argument against cos?

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Undergrad A question about Joule's experiment

  • Misr
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Undergrad Looking for a physics explanation of this observation

  • LennoxLewis
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Graduate Thermodynamics conceptual question(for advanced people)?

  • StarDust563
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High School On Newton's First Law of Motion

  • Lightfuzz
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Undergrad Wax in my heating system instead of water

  • technicalm
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Undergrad Thermal Conduction Through a Sphere

  • Brooks
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Undergrad What Causes Heat to be Released in a Deformed Spring?

  • j-lee00
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Graduate Enthelpy and isothermal, where is my logic wrong

  • EvilKermit
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High School Why does heat pass from hot to cold?

  • sameeralord
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High School Entropy is as simply as possible?

  • FeDeX_LaTeX
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High School Why Do Fingers Stick to Cold Surfaces Like Ice and Metal?

  • likephysics
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Graduate Quasistatic isothermal expansion

  • jlmac2001
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Graduate Schroeder on thermodynamical reversibility, entropy and quasi-static equilibrium

  • nonequilibrium
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Graduate Thermal Noise (Johnson–Nyquist)

  • Apteronotus
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Undergrad Searching for Joule Thomson and Thermal Expansion Coefficients of Methane

  • boka33
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Undergrad Adiabatic Process: Understanding & Deriving Help

  • vjk2
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Graduate How Can You Help Build a Steampunk Adiabatic Carnot Engine?

  • stevekerver
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Undergrad Thermal Radiation & 'Black Radiation': Explained

  • samreen
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Undergrad Is Polyfill Really Converting Pressure into Heat in Speaker Boxes?

  • xiayu
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Undergrad Converting engine torque to applied linear force

  • preet
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Undergrad How much free energy have we got?

  • technicalm
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Graduate Thermodynamic cycle and entropy

  • EvilKermit
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High School Can We Achieve 100% Efficiency? Renewable Components Explored

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High School What causes friction to generate heat?

  • wildkat7411
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Undergrad Peltier Cooling: Heat Transfer & Electron Theory

  • cragar
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High School Experimenting with Fire and Liquid Oxygen: My Fun Discovery

  • flatmaster
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Undergrad Evaporator machine but in the operations manual

  • TonyB
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High School Can my CPU temperature be less than room temp?

  • OSalcido
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High School Why Does Wind Feel Cool on a Hot Day?

  • sakodo
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Graduate Time taken for energy to transfer ?

  • SirSE
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High School Microwave heating with a lid on

  • ap_cycles
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High School Questions on Temperature and Movement - Akapink

  • akapink
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Graduate Heat and mass transfer empirical equations

  • bill nye scienceguy!
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Graduate Thermal Radiation Energy transfer

  • Awer1
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High School Why is it Colder at Higher Altitudes?

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Graduate Entropy, (ir)reversibility & Otto

  • nonequilibrium
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Graduate Integral in Stefan-Boltzmann law

  • dingo_d
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High School Discover the Best Way to Cool Your Coffee in Just 5 Minutes: Milk vs. No Milk

  • BL4CKCR4Y0NS
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Undergrad Thermodynamics: Heat Sink Experiment - 3 Pots vs. 2 Pots

  • dsisk559
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Graduate Hawking Radiation & Parity Imbalance: Matter vs. Anti-Matter

  • Coderider
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Undergrad Which Phase of Matter has Largest dV/dT?

  • gatztopher
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Graduate Liouville & Entropy: Solving the Controversy

  • Gerenuk
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Graduate The Relationship Between Entropy, Energy, and Equilibrium

  • Taturana
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Undergrad Can a parabolic surface help reduce heat from sunlight?

  • Robin07
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Undergrad How to find composition using Specific HEat

  • noobatphysics
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Graduate Can energy be transferred without doing work?(entropy)

  • gladius999
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High School Water bath with controlled temperature

  • nellierd
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High School What is the concept of negative temperature?

  • FeDeX_LaTeX
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High School Heating vs. Cooling: Why Does It Take Longer?

  • BL4CKCR4Y0NS
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Graduate WHY does the 2nd law of Thermodynamics work?

  • Pjoseph
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High School What happens to a gas when it suddenly expands?

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Undergrad Fundamental definition of entropy

  • FeDeX_LaTeX
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Undergrad How can I calculate energy loss from a leak in a large furnace?

  • rdolin
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Undergrad Convection, conduction and heating problem

  • Bob Smith
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Graduate Second Law of Thermodynamics - Postulate or Provable?

  • boderam
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Graduate Synchrotron radiation and conservation of energy

  • varga
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High School Newton´s third law: a justification

  • jpas
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Graduate Max efficiency (thermodynamics)

  • pinsky
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Undergrad Does Air Compressor Volume Affect Mass Conservation?

  • ampzor
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Undergrad Energy neither created nor destroyed

  • Super.man
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Undergrad Examples of State Functions in Thermodynamics

  • ausdreamer
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High School Newton's Third Law and Acceleartion

  • DMBdyn
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High School What Causes an Object to Be Hot?

  • Spakfilla
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Graduate Help with Adiabatic Derivation

  • Identity
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Undergrad Understanding of thermal processes?

  • Identity
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Graduate Gravitational Contraction and Entropy

  • BaghdadSerai
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High School What if Newton's Third Law didn't exist?

  • johncena
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Undergrad First law of Kepler explained without mass ?

  • hcl
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Undergrad Maximizing Cavitation to Heat Water Efficiently Without Electricity

  • TromboneNerd
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Undergrad Calculating the ratio between heat capacities of a gas

  • DoubleHelix
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Undergrad Why Don't Gas Mixtures Segregate in a Sealed Container?

  • mviswanathan
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Graduate Can Outside Temperature Affect the COP of Air-Conditioning Systems?

  • rayc
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High School What Is the Latent Heat of Ashes?

  • Chucky6
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Graduate Adiabatic and Quasistatic Compression

  • Identity
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Graduate Isentropic Process and Reversible Process

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Graduate How Do I Simulate the Motion of Heated Charged Molecules?

  • raymound
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Graduate Ozone heating the lower stratosphere.

  • faugaun
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High School How can we produce the triple point of water?

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Graduate Derivation of the Boltzmann Distribution

  • scorpion990
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High School Glass as Insulator: Fact or Fiction?

  • Vals509
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High School Do all bodies emmit black body radiation?

  • zeromodz
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