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Undergrad Cooling down by switching the heating on?
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Undergrad Newton's Third Law with Skimboarding?
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Undergrad What Bubble Shapes Most Effectively Insulate Against Heat?
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Undergrad Hit or Miss: Maintaining Fridge Temperature w/ Food or Air
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Undergrad Blackbody Radiation Explained: A Layman's Guide
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Graduate Calculating Radiation Propagation with Cs-137
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Undergrad Why liquids don't stay hot/cold indefinitely in a thermos
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Graduate Pressure, temperature, and volume relation in liquids
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Undergrad Does temperature change with external forces?
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Graduate Which of these radiation sources gives a higher dose rate?
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Graduate Relative Entropy: Coffee Hot after Acceleration?
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Graduate Is the Otto Cycle Reversible with Ideal Gas Assumptions?
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Undergrad Newton's second law cosine and sine
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High School Why Does Wind Make a Cold Day Feel Even Colder?
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Graduate Can Entropy Really Be Transferred Across System Boundaries?
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Graduate Understanding Entropy and Equilibrium: Debunking the Confusion
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Undergrad Is this a reliable way to determine the alcohol %?
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Undergrad Why Does Paper Stick to Hot Bowls?
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Undergrad Thermal equilibrium + heavier mass
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Undergrad What is the efficiency of reversible engines according to Carnot's Theorem?
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Undergrad Emission of Infrared radiation
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Undergrad Thermal equilibrium and aluminum
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High School What Causes Fire to Produce Heat and Light?
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Undergrad Thermal expansion of solid cylinder with blind hole
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Graduate Can Sound and Light Properties Quantitatively Determine System Entropy?
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Graduate Is the second's law of thermodynamics fundamental?
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Undergrad Absolute Zero and Absolute Accuracy
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Graduate Entropy and sliding block with friction
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Graduate Heat and Photons: Understanding the Effects on Isolated Atoms"
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Undergrad What do Rayleigh and Nusselt numbers tell us about heat transfer?
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Graduate Analyzing Gas Tank Filling Rates: Solving a Differential Equation
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Undergrad What is Einstein Temperature? - Calculate & Understand
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Graduate Problem on heat transfer on multilayer
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Undergrad Max Efficiency of a Carnot Engine vs Other Engines
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Undergrad How is ionization an endothermic reaction?
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Undergrad What is the true nature of rest according to Newton's first law?
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Undergrad The rate of cooling of a material in air, or with no barrier between materials
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Undergrad What happens to heat and radiation in a perfectly insulated box?
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Undergrad Have people artificially created blackbodies yet?
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Graduate How the first two laws of thermodynamics apply to order
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Graduate How to Calculate dE/dx for a Mixture of Gases?
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Graduate An upper bound in temperature?
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High School Does an Open Refrigerator Heat Up a Room?
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Undergrad Uranium/Plutonium hot to the touch?
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High School The d in Newton's second law of motion?
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Undergrad Optimizing Solar Water Heater Efficiency for Pool Heating
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Graduate Understanding Entropy: Definition, Relationship to S=Q/T, and Impact of dS=dQ/T
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Graduate Entropy increase in gravitational collapse.
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Undergrad Interesting lesson on Wheatstone bridges
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Graduate Process such as isobaric, isochoric, quasistatic, adiabatic
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Graduate Pipe diameter expansion due to temperature increase
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Undergrad The rate of temperature change
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Undergrad What is the efficiency of a gun?
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High School Energy extraction help requested
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Graduate Heating of solid - interatomic potential
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Graduate UK Insolation: Heat Gain Through Windows & NSE&W Calcs
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Undergrad What Does Joules per Kelvin Imply About Entropy?
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Graduate Is Entropy a State Function for Isolated Systems?
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Graduate Frame dependence of temperature
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Graduate What Happens When Steam and Water Reach Thermal Equilibrium?
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High School Newton's Third Law: Is it True and Why Does it Work?
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Undergrad Can Gases Lower Their Temperature Through Radiation Heat Transfer?
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Undergrad Would it be possible to create a sterling engine out of liquid nitrogen and air?
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Graduate Could This Experiment Disprove the Second Law of Thermodynamics?
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Graduate Temperature change after flow through an oriface
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High School Compressor vs Condenser - what's the difference?
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Graduate Gibbs Energy: Understanding A=G+hM
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Undergrad Understanding Energy Transfer and Heating in Materials Exposed to EM Radiation
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Undergrad U-Value: Calculating Energy Loss for W/M2/K
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Undergrad Can Thermal Cameras Help Reduce Epidemic Spread More Effectively Than Vaccines?
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Undergrad How to tell if two system has same temperature?
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Undergrad Can Heat Transfer Occur Unevenly in a System with Constant Temperature?
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Undergrad What is negative heat capacity ?
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Undergrad How to collect the energy from the heat of the environment
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Graduate Small bandgap IR detectors need to work in crogenic temperature
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High School Temperature of something is a measure of the average kinetic energy
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Undergrad Enthelpy with regards to heat exchangers and air
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Undergrad Radiators and Fan Arrangement Questions to improve performance
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Graduate Achieving Sonic Flow with Shop Compressors and Vortex Tubes
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Undergrad Energy Transfer: Instant Transmission?
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Undergrad Why about 1 kJ/kg/K for so many solids?
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Graduate Entropy in big bang vs big crunch
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Graduate Circular argument in the first law of thermodynamics ?
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Graduate Bernoulli : temperature lower in a restriction?
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High School Relationship between pressure, density, temperature, and state of matter
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High School Why does the dewpoint go down with increasing temperatures?
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Graduate Do soundwaves heat up the air through which they travel?
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Graduate From shannon's entropy to thermodynamics
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Graduate Understanding 2 Adiabatic Processes and the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics
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Graduate Is Heat Release Necessary for Steady State Equilibrium in Heat Flow?
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Undergrad Why Lake Tahoe Doesn't Fully Freeze
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Undergrad Buoyant forces and temperature
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Undergrad Absolute Zero on celsius scale
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Undergrad Calculating Grashof's Number for Natural Convection
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High School Convert Internal Energy to Mechanical Energy: Real Life Examples
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Undergrad Newton's Law of Cooling. little question about 'Specific heat' of Mercury
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Undergrad Mercury: expansion with temperature
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Graduate Heat provider and heat acceptor makes up the system.heat flows
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Undergrad Question about the refrigeration cycle
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