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Graduate (radiation) monpoles vs. dipoles
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Graduate Could electron movement influence the vibrational energies that define heat?
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Undergrad Newton's Third Law - Weak Form Application
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Undergrad Freezing @ 500 degrees centigrade
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Undergrad The Significance of the Mechanical Equivalent of Heat
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High School Physics of Dry Air: Is a Space Heater Drying the Air?
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Graduate Energy conservation and thermodynamics
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Graduate Reversibility and Carnot cycle
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Graduate Does the temperature of a body depend upon the frame of the observer?
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High School Newton's 1st Law: Motion & Astronauts
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Graduate Entropy and information: Do physicists still believe so?
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Undergrad Does Thermal Expansion Affect the Enclosed Volume or the Shell Material Volume?
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Undergrad Can 9kJ Qh/s at 375K Be Converted to 4kJ Ql/s at 225K?
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High School Real time help-Which has faster thaw time?
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Graduate How Does Thermal Effect Influence Wave Velocity in Piezoelectric Materials?
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High School Understanding Exergy: The Basics of Energy and its Applications
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High School Understanding Newton's Third Law: Why Does a Rocket Go Up?
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High School Heat and thermal energy question
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Graduate Heat and objects approaching the speed of light
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Graduate Does Removing a Partition Increase Entropy in a Gas Box?
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High School Heating water - microwaves vs kettle?
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Undergrad Entropy Change in Pumped Air: Increase or Decrease?
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Graduate Understanding Gas Flow through Tubes: Choking at the Speed of Sound
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Graduate Understanding Brillouin's Entropy Decrease
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High School Why Does Water Move on a Hot Surface Instead of Evaporating Immediately?
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Graduate What does b mean in this context?
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How do you construct an OVEN THERMOMETER?
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Undergrad Do Incandescent Solids Follow Stefan's Law?
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High School Dryness Fraction: Dry or Wet Steam?
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Undergrad Why Did Temperatures Drop Despite Identical Sunny Skies?
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Undergrad Why is Infrared Light Considered Heat in CO2 Lasers?
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Undergrad Coal Fire Pockets: Is Temperature Higher?
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Graduate Investigating the Dependence of SoS on Pressure & Temperature
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Graduate Stefan's Law And Definition Of Temperature
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Undergrad Filling small compressed air bottle with a big one
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High School Newton's 2nd Law: F=ma - Does Object A Feel Force?
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High School Why Do Objects Move Despite Equal and Opposite Reactions?
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Undergrad Convert radio frequency to temperature
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Undergrad How to Determine if Temperature Increase is Due to Work or Heat?
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Undergrad Radiator Maxumum Heat Transfer
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Graduate Temperature Limit of Matter: Can it Be Reached?
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Undergrad Rate of Butter Reaching Room Temp: Need Help!
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Graduate Entropy change with angular momentum
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High School Understanding 1233K on the Kelvin Scale
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Graduate Quantum Effects on Energy Levels: The Relationship between Heat and Work
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Undergrad Room Temperature Changes With Refrigerator: Warmer or Colder?
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High School Why Did My Pub's Cellar Temperature Rise During a Sudden Cold Snap?
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Undergrad Can Thermal Imagers See Through Aluminised Cloaks?
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Graduate Estimating Complexity of Images: Entropy & World Perception
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Unfrozen freezy pops a bewitched frozen treat
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High School The temperature of a satellie's surface
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Question about Ice in a drink cooler
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Undergrad What Keeps the Universe Dynamic Instead of Fixed?
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Undergrad Temperature Amplifier: Ideas & Input Requested
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High School Heat Transfer: Conduction vs. Convection vs. Radiation
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Undergrad How Do I Calculate the Cost Savings on My Electricity Bill for Running My AC?
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Undergrad Calculating the Temperature Needed to Move a Piston in a Sealed Cylinder
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High School Can a Fan Increase Temperature in a Closed Room?
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High School Forehead Thermometer: How Liquid Crystals Work
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High School What is Newton's First and Second Law?
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Graduate Entropy and expanding universe
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Undergrad Can a Stirling Engine Withstand Intense Solar Heat without a Coolant?
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Undergrad How Can Space Be Cold in a Vacuum Despite Molecular Vibration?
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High School Understanding Newton's Third Law
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Undergrad Hot Objects Don't Always Accelerate - Puzzling Physics Explained
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Undergrad Where Can I Find a Thermal Physics Q&A Forum for My Class?
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Undergrad Is Newton's Third Law always true in every scenario?
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High School Please explain why the freezer is the top compartment in a fridge
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Undergrad Heating Time of Compressed Air
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Graduate Can Entropy Be Reversed?: A Reflection on Isaac Asimov's 50-Year-Old Story
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Undergrad The given power of a heated body
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Graduate Can a Closed System at Absolute Zero Experience Thermodynamic Change?
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High School Convert PSI to Pascals & Compare to Atmospheres
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How useful are thermometers if they only show their temperature?
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Undergrad Carnot Cycle help - Engine temp reservoirs
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Undergrad Real vs Ideal Gas: Pressure & Temperature Effects
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Graduate Black Body / Emission difference ?
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High School Vacuum Insulation Cup: Best Way to Hold 1L of Boiling Water
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Keep Cool in Summer: AC + 3 Portable Fans
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Graduate Heats generated during atmospheric entry
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Graduate Is there any way for the entropy to increase in an closed adiabatic sy
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Undergrad Question on Thermal Siphoning velocity?
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High School How Does Infrared Radiation Relate to Heat?
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Undergrad Will A Temperature Change Caused by Fire Line Crack Mirror?
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Graduate Heat propagation in radiating surface
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Undergrad Heat Transfer Q: Will Water Reach Equilibrium?
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Undergrad Understanding the PV^(gamma) = C Equation in Adiabatic Processes and Ideal Gases
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Graduate Heat Capacity & Density: Math Relation Explored
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High School Concentrating sunlight to creat different extream temperatures
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Graduate Adiabatic cooling vs. Joule-Thomson effect
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Undergrad Can Someone Explain How the Second Law of Thermodynamics Opposes the First Law?
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High School Discovering the Father of Thermodynamics and the Laws of Energy Conversion
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Thermodynamics by Donald Luttermoser
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Undergrad What are the other state functions and how do we determine them?
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High School Why does everything achieves to reach equilibrium?
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High School Why does anything that accelerates heat up?
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Graduate Relative humidity calc at high temps
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Graduate Does maximum temperature exist?
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Undergrad Maximizing Efficiency: House Heating in a Closed System
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Fun with cryogenics and whip cream
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