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Undergrad Why Do Vacuum Tubes in CRT TVs Get Hot Despite the Vacuum?
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Undergrad Disorder: Is it really increasing?
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Undergrad Why ideal gases are not used in refrigerator?
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Undergrad Entropy Confusion: Feynman's Explanation and My Question
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Undergrad An extremely Novice energy question
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Undergrad Is heat's velocity constant like light's?
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Graduate Computer/System Security + Sencond Law of thermo
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Undergrad Gibbs Free Energy: Unlocking Available Work Potential
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Undergrad Heat Transfer & GPM: Can High Flow Coolant Overheat Engines?
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Undergrad Carnot efficiency: is heat always positive?
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Undergrad What's wrong with argument against cos?
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Undergrad A question about Joule's experiment
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Undergrad Looking for a physics explanation of this observation
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Graduate Thermodynamics conceptual question(for advanced people)?
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High School On Newton's First Law of Motion
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Undergrad Wax in my heating system instead of water
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Undergrad Thermal Conduction Through a Sphere
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Undergrad What Causes Heat to be Released in a Deformed Spring?
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Graduate Enthelpy and isothermal, where is my logic wrong
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High School Why does heat pass from hot to cold?
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High School Entropy is as simply as possible?
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High School Why Do Fingers Stick to Cold Surfaces Like Ice and Metal?
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Graduate Quasistatic isothermal expansion
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Graduate Schroeder on thermodynamical reversibility, entropy and quasi-static equilibrium
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Graduate Thermal Noise (Johnson–Nyquist)
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Undergrad Searching for Joule Thomson and Thermal Expansion Coefficients of Methane
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Undergrad Adiabatic Process: Understanding & Deriving Help
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Graduate How Can You Help Build a Steampunk Adiabatic Carnot Engine?
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Undergrad Thermal Radiation & 'Black Radiation': Explained
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Undergrad Is Polyfill Really Converting Pressure into Heat in Speaker Boxes?
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Undergrad Converting engine torque to applied linear force
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Undergrad How much free energy have we got?
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Graduate Thermodynamic cycle and entropy
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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?
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Undergrad Peltier Cooling: Heat Transfer & Electron Theory
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High School Experimenting with Fire and Liquid Oxygen: My Fun Discovery
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Undergrad Evaporator machine but in the operations manual
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High School Can my CPU temperature be less than room temp?
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High School Why Does Wind Feel Cool on a Hot Day?
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Graduate Time taken for energy to transfer ?
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High School Microwave heating with a lid on
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High School Questions on Temperature and Movement - Akapink
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Graduate Heat and mass transfer empirical equations
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Graduate Thermal Radiation Energy transfer
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High School Why is it Colder at Higher Altitudes?
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Graduate Entropy, (ir)reversibility & Otto
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Graduate Integral in Stefan-Boltzmann law
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High School Discover the Best Way to Cool Your Coffee in Just 5 Minutes: Milk vs. No Milk
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Undergrad Thermodynamics: Heat Sink Experiment - 3 Pots vs. 2 Pots
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Graduate Hawking Radiation & Parity Imbalance: Matter vs. Anti-Matter
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Undergrad Which Phase of Matter has Largest dV/dT?
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Graduate Liouville & Entropy: Solving the Controversy
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Graduate The Relationship Between Entropy, Energy, and Equilibrium
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Undergrad Can a parabolic surface help reduce heat from sunlight?
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Undergrad How to find composition using Specific HEat
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Graduate Can energy be transferred without doing work?(entropy)
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High School Water bath with controlled temperature
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High School What is the concept of negative temperature?
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High School Heating vs. Cooling: Why Does It Take Longer?
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Graduate WHY does the 2nd law of Thermodynamics work?
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High School What happens to a gas when it suddenly expands?
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Undergrad Fundamental definition of entropy
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Undergrad How can I calculate energy loss from a leak in a large furnace?
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Undergrad Convection, conduction and heating problem
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Graduate Second Law of Thermodynamics - Postulate or Provable?
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Graduate Synchrotron radiation and conservation of energy
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High School Newton´s third law: a justification
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Graduate Max efficiency (thermodynamics)
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Undergrad Does Air Compressor Volume Affect Mass Conservation?
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Undergrad Energy neither created nor destroyed
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Undergrad Examples of State Functions in Thermodynamics
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High School Newton's Third Law and Acceleartion
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High School What Causes an Object to Be Hot?
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Graduate Help with Adiabatic Derivation
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Undergrad Understanding of thermal processes?
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Graduate Gravitational Contraction and Entropy
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High School What if Newton's Third Law didn't exist?
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Undergrad First law of Kepler explained without mass ?
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Undergrad Maximizing Cavitation to Heat Water Efficiently Without Electricity
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Undergrad Calculating the ratio between heat capacities of a gas
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Undergrad Why Don't Gas Mixtures Segregate in a Sealed Container?
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Graduate Can Outside Temperature Affect the COP of Air-Conditioning Systems?
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High School What Is the Latent Heat of Ashes?
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Graduate Adiabatic and Quasistatic Compression
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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?
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Graduate Ozone heating the lower stratosphere.
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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
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High School Glass as Insulator: Fact or Fiction?
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High School Do all bodies emmit black body radiation?
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Undergrad Replace solar panels by thermopiles
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Graduate Engineering Materials - Ramberg Osgood Parameters Help
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Undergrad Is an adiabatic process isothermal also?
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Graduate What is the lattice enthalpy of MgCl2?
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High School What is the meaning of degree of temperature?
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Undergrad First law of thermodynamics, q=w for a reversible isothermal process
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Undergrad Conduction Through Alum. Plate
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High School Colour Temperature: Light vs Heat - What's the Difference?
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