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Undergrad How Does Hot Air Rise and Affect Weather Systems?
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High School How well does aluminum foil block radiation?
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Undergrad Optimal House Color in Cold Climate
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Graduate The Fundamental Relation of Thermodynamics
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Undergrad Why is Infrared Light Uniquely Associated with Heat Emission?
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Graduate Origin to the 'virial theorem' by Clausius
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Undergrad Gas compression and Interaction with Fluids
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Undergrad Iron State with Temperature and Pressure
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Graduate Gravity and the first law of thermodynamics.
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Undergrad How temperature effects bulk modulus?
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Undergrad Why is the Second Law of Thermodynamics Empirical?
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Graduate Thermo Question: Saturated Mixture Heat Flux Impact?
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Graduate Comparing critical temperature to mechanical onset of turbulence
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Graduate How Can You Calculate the Emissivity of Argon for Heat Transfer Analysis?
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Undergrad Endothermic Paint: Absorbing Heat and Keeping Cool
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Graduate Methane gas deflagration temperatures
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Graduate Synchrotron Radiation: Explaining Its Wide Spectrum
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Undergrad The difference between Burning and Exploding
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High School How does a fuel engine convert heat into mechanical work?
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Graduate The mixture of two gases in gravitational field
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Graduate Physics of Verne Gun: Launching Vehicle to Escape Velocity
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Graduate Solving the Mystery of Entropy
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Graduate Gibbs Paradox - Does Entropy Increase or Not?
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Graduate Wave Frequency in Piston: Pressure Variation & Adiabatic Compression
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Undergrad Maximizing Heat Retention in Pool Water: Tips for Covering and Liner Color
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High School Why do plastic containers deform in hot temperatures?
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Graduate Can the Heat Death of the Universe Be Prevented?
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Graduate Joule-Thomson Coeff. For Air at High dP
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Undergrad Why does temperature rise with pressure?
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Graduate Using Homogenuous Functions to Understand Thermodynamics
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Graduate What is the real explanation for entropy and its role in chemical reactions?
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Undergrad How is boiling different from evaporation?
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High School Ideal Gas Assumptions: Can it Turn into a Liquid?
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Undergrad Real Gas vs Ideal Gas: Compressibility Ratio
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Graduate How Does an Ideal Gas Sphere Expand in a Vacuum?
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Undergrad Heat loss from an insulated water tank - Thermodynamics
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Undergrad Heat Biological Material with Laser: Finding the Right Settings
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High School Ok where does the energy come from?
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Graduate Definition of the number of microstates accessible to a system
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Undergrad A question of the Intercompatibility of the Gas Laws.
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Undergrad Heating water in a sealed bottle
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Graduate Temperature of thermometer and temperature of material constituents
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Graduate What Differentiates Crossovers from Phase Transitions in Thermodynamics?
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Graduate Fermi level as a function of temperature
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Undergrad What Causes Thermal Radiation to Be Emitted by Matter?
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Graduate Revolutionize Renewable Energy with the Innovative Alternative Energy Tank
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High School Fanless convection heater versus oil filled heater
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Undergrad Entropy: steam engines and fridges
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High School The Mystery of Dry Ice Smoke: Is it CO2?
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Graduate Coarse and fine grained entropy?
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Undergrad Understanding the Isothermal Process: Temperature and Internal Energy Explained
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Undergrad Friction, heat, time & surface area
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High School Application of specific heat capacity ratio of air
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Graduate Synchrotron radiation collimation
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Graduate Is there a more complex definition of thermal equilibrium in stars?
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High School A few conceptual questions on Heat and Temperature
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Graduate Derivation of Boltzmann distribution, heatbaths
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Undergrad Temperature related to yield or type of explosion? Nuclear vs conventional.
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Undergrad Heating solid to high temperature
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Graduate Heating water in a long container
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High School How to calculate the energy of the ice absorbs heat then becomes water
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Graduate Planck's blackbody radiation law is proved untrue at nanoscale distances
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Graduate How does a blackbody absorb radiation? and why?
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Undergrad Specific Heats and Temperature
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Graduate Perturbation Technique for Temperature Distribution Along Fin
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High School Decreasing temperature using pressure
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Undergrad How does space have a temperature?
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High School What is Exergy? | Learn About Energy & Its Variations
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Undergrad Which Type of Sensor is More Accurate: Thermocouple or RTD?
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High School Solving a Physics Dilemma: Hot Coffee and Cream Debate | Noob Physics Question
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Graduate Can G be determined by measuring heat transfer in a controlled environment?
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High School Specific heat of different materials
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Undergrad How to prevent ice from forming?
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Undergrad Understanding U Values: A Quick Comparison and Concerns Addressed
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High School 1ve broken the 1st law of thermodynamics, ive created energy
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Graduate Butterfly effect from .01 degree temperature uncertainty
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Graduate Second law of thermo on a macroscopic scale
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Undergrad Series of physical events in an exothermic reaction
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Undergrad Latent heat effects thermal equilibrium
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High School Help with Thermal Conductivity - Water vs. Air
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High School Understanding the Gas Constant: A Key Concept in Thermodynamics
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Graduate How to define/measure temperature?
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Graduate Cerenkov radiation and the speed of light
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High School Boiling 2 Eggs: How Long Will It Take?
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Undergrad Adiabatic Atmosphere: Understand Heat Transfer and Cooling
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Undergrad Why do microwaves heat honey so fast?
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Undergrad Water pressure, volume, temperature
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Undergrad Introductory Thermodynamics and mathematical consistency?
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High School Confusion with the example of Newton’s first law
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High School What Is the Specific Heat Capacity of Different Types of Bronze?
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Graduate Does a Toroidal Solenoid Violate Newton's Third Law?
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Graduate A new point of view on freezing point.
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Undergrad Newton's cooling to be applied to heating
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Undergrad Why does it take more energy to heat nitrogen?
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Graduate Thermodynamics: Open system: outlet but no inlet
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Undergrad Temp Limits: Speed of Light, Absolute Zero & Kinetic Energy
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High School Microwave Radiation: Is Standing Nearby Harmful?
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Undergrad Maintaining a temperature of 70 degrees in a metal powder
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Undergrad First Law of Thermodynamics conversion
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Undergrad Why can't metal mesh be used to make planes stealthy?
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