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Undergrad Stefan's Radiation Law with Boxes
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Undergrad The Meaning of the Ideal Gas Equation: Vdp + pdV = 0
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Undergrad Entropy to never decrease in an isolated system
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Undergrad Radiation heat transfer between air or wall
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Graduate How Does Induction Heating Work and What Factors Affect Its Efficiency?
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High School Heat Container: 20cm - Time Required
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High School How to prove the Newton's third law.
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Graduate Expansion/Contraction Energy from Temperature Difference
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High School How is the freezer part of a refrigerator is more cooler than the other parts?
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Undergrad Geothermal power entering atmosphere?
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Graduate Thermal imaging and radiometry
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Undergrad Can Gasoline Vapor in Sewers Lead to Explosions?
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Undergrad Are Stages 2-3 and 1-4 in the OTTO Cycle Adiabatic?
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Can Barbra Streisand Dummies Prevent Bird Strikes on Airplanes?
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Undergrad Physics/Chem: Dry Ice Expanding at 1 ATM - Push?
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High School Newton's Third Law: Why Is There Motion?
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Undergrad Combined gas law vs. adiabatic relations
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Graduate Adiabatic process-how is internal energy mcv(t2-t1)
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Graduate Vapour Liquid Equilibrium for a two component mixture.
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High School Question on Third law of motion.
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Graduate Understanding \DeltaH and \DeltaE in Constant Volume Process
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Undergrad Using Solenoids to Create an Automobile Engine: Patents & Possibilities
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Undergrad What is the true definition of entropy?
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High School Does the piston ever stop moving in a running engine?
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Graduate Temperature Gradients of Independent Radiating Bodies within A Mixture.
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Undergrad Learning source for Thermodynamic
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Graduate What Causes Red-Hot Materials to Emit Electromagnetic Radiation?
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High School Why is infrared called the heat signature?
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Graduate Need light with less heat for microscope
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Undergrad Emission of infra red from hot bodies
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High School Iron vs Water: What Causes Temperature Change?
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Undergrad Formula to calculate the engine inertia
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Graduate How Do You Prove Key Thermodynamic Identities?
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Graduate Vibrational Decay: Explaining Heat Radiation In Space
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Undergrad Can you calculate energy required to maintain heating element?
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Graduate Atmospheric radiation scattering/absorption
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Graduate Thermodynamic Limit: V/N = $\upsilon_0$ $\neq$ 0
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Graduate White noise vs Black body radiation
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Undergrad The Van Allen Radiation Belt and Space Travel
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Undergrad Quick Question- carnot efficiency
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Graduate Gas considered as lots of molecules
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Undergrad Can Temperature Ever Reach Absolute Zero?
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Undergrad How to obtain temperature from a PV vs P diagram using ideal gas law?
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Graduate Is it possible for maximum entropy to decrease?
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Graduate Is this interpretation of 2nd law of Thermodynamics correct?
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Graduate Hypothetical cyclic process- does it violate the thermodynamic laws?
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Undergrad Physics behind making fire: The ancient way
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High School Question: Evaporation - beyond boiling point
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Undergrad How Does a Vacuum Influence Water Evaporation Rates at 322K?
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Undergrad Efficiency with a combustion engine
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Graduate Conflicting definitions of temperature?
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Graduate Foundations: Newton's Third Law and time reversal invariance
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Undergrad Thermal conductivity of metals
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Undergrad Heat loss of a steel steam pipe
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High School Cocktail Shaker: Ice Melting Explained
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Undergrad Total entropy change does not depend on the mass of water?
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Undergrad Stupid question about Newton's third law
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Undergrad What Are Thermal Photons and How Do They Transfer Heat?
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Graduate Entropy increase in dissipative systems
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Graduate Blackholes and 2nd Law of Thermodynamics
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Undergrad Energy stored when compressing a gas
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Undergrad Thermal Resistivity: Is Zero Equal to Infinity?
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Graduate Power Plant PLF: Can 109-110% be Achieved?
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High School Infrared Waves & Radiating Heat: Investigating the Connection
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High School Problems and solutions about thermodynamics
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Graduate Artificial Black Hole and entropia
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Graduate 2. law of thermodynamics wrong afterall?
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Undergrad Answer Entropy: How Does Water Absorption by Paper Towels Work?
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High School Can salty sea water create heat in a simple reaction ?
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Undergrad Is white surface a good radiation emitter?
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Undergrad Enthelpy (H=U+PV) What is P, really?
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Undergrad The Force of Wind and the Debate on Heat, Energy, and Mass
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Undergrad Work in Heat Engines and Refrigerators: Positive or Negative?
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High School Simple way to measure thermal conductivity
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Undergrad Energy savings lamp produce heat so what?
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Undergrad Does Aluminum Foil Really Prevent Burning on a Turkey in the Oven?
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Graduate How Can Air Expansion Help Lift Humans Off the Ground?
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Graduate Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer, differential equals
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Graduate The average and variance of distributions (thermodynamics)
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Graduate Is conservation laws are more fundamental than Newton's second law?
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Undergrad Energy lost from Wind Turbines
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Undergrad How Can Calibration Improve Accuracy in Heat Experiments?
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Undergrad What is the physics behind Ash to forming?
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High School Newton's third law and air resitance?
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Graduate What Do Helmholtz and Gibbs Free Energy Mean in Thermodynamics?
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High School Why does the temperature goes up following rainfall (then gradually cools down)?
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Graduate Free expansion of an ideal gas.
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Undergrad How Can I Calculate the PSI Needed to Compress Air to 100°C?
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Undergrad Some confusion between radiation and conduction
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Undergrad Calculating Motor Engine torque/power using accelerometer data
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High School Can Insulation and Heat Reflective Materials Work Together for Fire Safety?
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Graduate Average total energy of 3D harmonic oscillator in thermal equilibrium
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Graduate Does a machine like this violate laws of thermodynamics?
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Graduate Black hole versus 2nd law of thermaldynamics
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Undergrad Is the aurora (as in borealis ) caused by Cherenkov radiation
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Undergrad Newton's third law of motion - help me to explain it to someone
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Graduate Blackbody Radiation (Rayleigh-Jean) Equipartion of Energy Question
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Undergrad How Efficient is an old-style coal-fired steam boiler?
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Undergrad [Thermodynamics] Temperature gradient around a warm sphere.
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Undergrad Factors affecting heat exchange
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