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High School Is time a consequence of 2nd law of thermodynamics?
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Graduate Can high air velocity in vacuum system create "freezing" of the pipe?
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Undergrad Volume of water consumed by vacuum
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High School Can a Heat Pump and Stirling Engine Create a Perpetual Energy Cycle?
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Graduate Thermal shock wave question from my hydrodynamics simulation
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Undergrad Entropy and Heat Capacity Relation
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Graduate Solve Asymmetric Piston Problem for SL
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Undergrad Cycle of an air conditioner and power consumed
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Graduate From weatherstation data to solar irradiation on specific surface
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Graduate Connection between the two definitions of entropy
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Graduate Heat Transfer - Critical Radius of Insulation
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Undergrad Temperature vs moisture content to sustain a fire in a given material?
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Graduate Calculate the distribution of energies from momenta
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Undergrad Metals as Infrared Reflectors and their Temperature
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Graduate EM re-radiation from a metal object (antennas)
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Undergrad Does combusted gas travel faster in a vacuum tube?
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High School NIST database and compressibility factor Z
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Undergrad What happens when gas is combusted while moving?
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Undergrad A query about heat capacity and specific heat capacity
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Undergrad Instantaneous Gas Compression: temperature increase?
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Graduate What's the deal with plasma physicists setting heat cap. ratio to 3?
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Graduate Radiation leak test instruments
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Graduate Heat conduction from an isotherm spherical cap
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Graduate What exactly does the proposed 4th law of thermodynamics mean?
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Graduate Your thoughts about the entropy of coal?
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Undergrad Calculating how much heat must be added to increase temp
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Graduate The Draper point and why can't we see human radiation
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Graduate Definition of a system in Boltzmann entropy
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Undergrad Sound Engineering: Why's it so hard to get things like timbre right?
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Undergrad Sensitivity of the liquid-in-glass thermometer
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Undergrad Why the temperature of a car does not increase with velocity?
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Graduate What causes the peak in the thermal noise spectrum of an RLC circuit?
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Graduate Absolute zeros other than temperature (e.g. pressure)
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Undergrad Evolution of a Boltzman distribution
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Graduate Thermodynamic Axioms: Establishing Temperature, Internal Energy & Entropy
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Undergrad How much radiation is too much?
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Undergrad How can a process be isentropic but not reversible or adiobatic?
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Undergrad Friction/heat kinetic energy - reactive force
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Undergrad Necessary conditions for energy harvesting
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High School Gas Interaction in a Box: Force and Pressure Dynamics
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Graduate Thermodynamics problem -- Pressure oscillations in a jar
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High School Where am I going wrong (energy transfer between black bodies)?
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Undergrad Feynman's reversible and irreversible machines
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Graduate Physical meaning of thermal conductivity tensor
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Undergrad How to do the calculations for a Wheatstone Bridge
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Undergrad Question regarding dh, du, cp, cv for ideal gases
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Graduate Isothermal and adiabatic air compression -- different expressions
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Undergrad Life vs Entropy: Investigating an Unexpected Paradox
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Undergrad Wave frequency, medium and temperature
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Graduate Derive Cattaneo–Vernotte Law w/Proof
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Undergrad How Is Entropy Calculated in an Irreversible Gas Expansion?
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Graduate Entropy change for spontaneous/ irreversible gas expansion
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Undergrad Does Newton's Third law apply to torque/rotation?
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Undergrad Are the Laws of Thermodynamics still applicable in modern physics?
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Undergrad What is the purpose of the Prandtl Mixing Length for turbulent flow?
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Graduate Understanding Entropy: A Fresh Perspective from Brian Greene's Latest Book
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Undergrad Is it possible to calculate an incandescent bulb's temperature from V?
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Undergrad Irreversible Isochoric Process in a Cycle
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Graduate Impact of the engine thermostat temperature setting on engine efficiency
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High School Why We Learn Reaumur Temperature Scale in High School Physics
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Undergrad Gibbs paradox: an urban legend in statistical physics
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Undergrad Does Copper Conduct Heat Better than cPVC?
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Graduate Understanding Enthalpy: Confusion Cleared Up | Thermodynamics Course"
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High School Looking for a good introductory book on thermodynamics
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Graduate Understanding the Laws of Thermodynamics as described by Feynman
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Undergrad Can Joule-Thomson effect freeze air?
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Graduate Can you reverse entropy without using energy?
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Undergrad Stratification of air in a closed system vs the stack effect
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High School Does the Order of insulating layers matter?
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Graduate Thermodynamics of a Fire Resistant Safe
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Undergrad Van der Waals Equation: How Surface is Considered
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Graduate Is EM Radiation Present with Free vs Bound Electrons?
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Graduate Evolution — information increase and entropy
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Graduate Stability and concavity of the entropy function
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Undergrad Can Energy Be Measured Directly or Only Through Its Changes?
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Graduate Learn Thermodynamics of Material Purification & Entropy for Desalination
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High School The 'all air in a room collecting on one side' adage
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High School Melting of Ice: Temperature, Light & Energy
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Undergrad Help with an ideal gas canonical ensemble partition function integral
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Undergrad Emergence of Complexity and Life
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Undergrad Does Humidity "Disperse" and "Even Out" in Enclosed Space?
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Undergrad Why Does Smoke Rise? An Exploration of Physics Principles
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Undergrad Understanding the concept of energy
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High School Energy Harvesting: Calculating kWh from Motorway Traffic
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Graduate Can Heat Transfer Through Conduction Occur at Relativistic Speeds?
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High School Heating up water versus water with an iron brick
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High School If pressure decreases, does temperature then decrease?
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Graduate "Where’s your second law of thermodynamics now?"
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High School First law of Thermodynamics and energy conservation
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Graduate Kelvin-Planck 2nd Law of Thermo & a Syringe Steam Engine
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Undergrad How Does a Thermos Bottle Work?
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Graduate Temperature of a Solar panel in space
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Graduate Air conditioner without heat output - Is it possible?
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Graduate EM radiation temperature vs particle temperature
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Graduate The violation of Newton's third Law
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Undergrad Entropy question: Does a substance at 0K have no entropy?
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Undergrad Problems understanding the 2nd law of thermodynamics
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Undergrad Modeling Thermal Equilibrium in Interacting Einstein Solids: A Python Approach
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Undergrad Energy Transfer Through Materials
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High School What is Energy? A Clear Definition and Explanation
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