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High School Adding heating elements in series. Will this work?
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Graduate Ideal gas law, applied to non-rigid container
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Undergrad How can multimeter measure temperature?
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Graduate How can I improve convergence for my complex mathematical model?
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Undergrad Jet Engine Thrust in Atmosphere vs Space
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High School Where Can I Find an Enthalpy Calculator That Includes Pressure?
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Undergrad Measuring the gas temperature inside a vessel on the outside of the vessel
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Undergrad Tire Pressure When Air Inside Slows Down
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Undergrad What Happens to dU, dQ, and dW During Boiling?
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Undergrad Calculating heat transfer coefficient from experimental data
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High School Understanding the Joule: Defining and Applying Energy in Physics
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Graduate Thermodynamics & Degrees of Freedom
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Undergrad 2 Identical Objects in Thermal Contact
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Undergrad Finding Temperature with Speed?
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Graduate 2nd law of Thermodynamics and black body brightness function
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High School Heating oil and outside temperature
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Undergrad How was absolute 0 calculated?
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High School Clothes Iron versus baseboard heater
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Graduate What is the derivation of the torque formula for a piston engine?
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Graduate Why is the Carnot engine considered the most efficient?
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Graduate Radiation from an ideal LC tank circuit
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High School How much energy do i produce with my dynamo while cycling ?
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Graduate Is there a relationship between temperature and gravity
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Undergrad Heat transfer equation within soils
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Graduate Heat transfer rate to heating time
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High School Temperature: Definition & Measurement
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High School How Do Rockets Demonstrate Newton's Third Law of Motion?
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Undergrad Thermal expansion coefficient for liquids.
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Undergrad What Causes the Real Increase in Liquid Volume in Thermodynamics?
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Graduate Entropy and multiplicity of a gas when adding/removing wall in container
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Graduate Entropy & Time Reversal Symmetry: Breaking Symmetry?
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High School Is 2 Million Disintegrations Per Minute a Dangerous Level of Radiation?
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Undergrad Temperature measurement with a Pyromter
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Undergrad A question on thermal radiation
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Undergrad Beer + Liquid Nitrogen: Why Does It Foam & Popcorn?
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Undergrad Efficiency of heat pump and refrigerator
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UN: How Will the Sun's Life Cycle Affect Our Existence?
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Undergrad Building a Bimetallic Thermometer: Aluminium and Brass Sheets
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Graduate Synchrotron Radiation Units: Photons/s/mrad^2/1%BW
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Undergrad How does these two equations relate?
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Graduate Entropy of a perfect gas at 0 kelvin
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Graduate Theorems of Liouville and Poincare & their relation to entropy
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Undergrad Internal energy does or does not depend on volume of molecules?
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Undergrad Calc based physics thermodynamics
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Undergrad Question About Air - Is it True That Air Can Combust?
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Undergrad Twice as Hot/Cold? What Does That Mean?
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High School Newton's Third Law of pushing a box
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Graduate Negative Temperatures: Understanding the Impossible
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Undergrad Sound wave energy transfer to heat water?
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Graduate Is it possible to reach absolute zero and understand particle motion?
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Graduate The ever elusive free energy device
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Graduate Explaining Adiabatic Process taking Van Der Waals Equations?
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Graduate What is (Subject: Thermodynamics)
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Undergrad Pizza: Latent Heat & Burning Tongue
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Undergrad Surface area vs rate of evaporation
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Graduate Herztian dipole + radiation patterns
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Graduate Thermodyamics, total differentials and integration.
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High School How a Cathode Heater Works: A Clear Explanation
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Graduate Does Gravity Affect Entropy Levels in Self-Gravitating Systems?
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High School Why do ice cubes stick together?
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Undergrad Solving the Enthalpy Equation in C++
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Undergrad Jogging bicycling or driving, most energy efficient?
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Graduate Calculating Gas Expansion Ratio for Fireball Formation
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Graduate Only quasistatic process can be a polytropic process
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Graduate Wave questions and Čerenkov radiation
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Undergrad Mathematical and conceptual prerequisites of thermodynamics
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Undergrad Thermal Conductivity Definition
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Graduate Imperfections of classical thermodynamics
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Graduate Derivation of Entropy Eq - For Smart People
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High School How long could human race survive without the sun?
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Graduate Can the Bose-Einstein Condensate reach 0 K?
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Undergrad Can Radiation Be Converted to Electricity?
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Graduate What is the relationship between partial derivatives in thermodynamics?
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Graduate Reason behind the definition of Helmholtz free Energy
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Graduate Comparison Between Two Isolated Systems
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Graduate Stages of Gas Thermal Ionization
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Undergrad What Happens When Cooled Air Passes Over a Vortex Tube?
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Graduate Standard deviation of the energy of a system in a heat bath
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Graduate How does heat cause radiation? And what role do electrons and spin energy play?
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Heat: blankets v sleeping bag
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Graduate Radiation Problem: Balancing Net Radiation of Two Spheres
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Undergrad Heat absorption, IR - light - UV, differences?
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Undergrad What is considered low temperature in Debye/Einstein theories?
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Graduate Question regarding air flow in a closed circuit
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Undergrad Calculate a thermal expansion pitch change
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Graduate Specific heat capacity for a monocromatic gas
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Undergrad Question about rapidly cooling air, and the resulting density
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Undergrad Diesel combustion and gas laws
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High School Ways to bend radiation question?
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Undergrad Does Radiation from a Colder Body Affect a Hotter Body in a Vacuum?
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Graduate Thermal Radiation from a Liquid or Gas
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Graduate Is It Possible for Humans to Reverse Entropy?
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Undergrad Does the New Solar Cell Violate the Second Law of Thermodynamics?
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Graduate Fate of matter with universal heat death
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Graduate Radiation Heat Pump: Is It Possible?
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Undergrad Is Running Your Heat Pump 24/7 More Efficient? Debunking Common Myths
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Graduate Quantifying Entropy - an analogy
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Undergrad Equivalent energy stored in compressed gas
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Graduate PEM fuel cells, why the membrane?
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Graduate Generating EM Radiation: Natural and Artificial Methods Explained"
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