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High School Adiabatic Cooling: Q&A for Dummies
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Undergrad Calculate Water Temperature in Pond Receiving Hot Water: Formula Included
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Undergrad How do electrons absorb and emit photons?
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High School Does opening an icebox in isolated space raise or lower the temperature?
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Undergrad Radiative heat transfer and states of matter
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Undergrad Why Doesn't Cold Water in a Tub Get Hotter Over Time?
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Graduate How Can New Stars Form from Chaos While Entropy Increases?
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High School How Do I Calculate the Cost of Running My Air Conditioner?
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Undergrad Some notes on carnot cycle,second law of thermodynamics
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High School Conservation of Energy: Pushing Boxes
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High School How do I use heat to create cooling?
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Undergrad The typical formula for temperature drop in evaporative cooling models
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High School Can Heating a Copper Coin Change the Radius of its Centre Hole?
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Undergrad Heating unit of meas. BTU/hr ft^2/deg.
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Graduate Night Sky Cooler: Can Hot Water Cool?
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High School Calculating power of heating element
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High School Can Fire Melt Steel? Investigating the Controversy Surrounding 9/11 Conspiracies
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Undergrad Why does the water in frozen pipes burst with no energy input?
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Graduate Why does dS = dQ / T in Entropy?
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High School Do Ideal Gases Absorb Heat When Expanded?
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Graduate Jet engine thermodynamic non sequitur.
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High School Beat the Heat: Feel the Breeze for Cool Comfort
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Undergrad Energy Violation Puzzle - The use of Negative Buoyancy to run a turbine
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High School Does a Warm Gasoline and Air Mixture Rise in a Cooler Environment?
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Graduate Dr. James Sethna's Stat Mech Book | Applications to Computational Stat Mech
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Graduate Thermo Radiation and Temperature
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High School Why do rocket engines work in the vacuum of space?
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Graduate Intutive understanding of entropy
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Graduate Extracting energy from air at room temperature help
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Graduate Why Does Salty Ice Cool Drinks Faster?
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Graduate What Tube Length Is Needed for Helium-4 Flow at 4.2K?
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Graduate Stat Mech vs. Greek atomistic hypothesis?
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Graduate Simulating heat transfer as a function of time between two bodies
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Undergrad How do I calculate BTU? (for a water heater project)
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High School Temperature and color - why hot objects glow red?
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Undergrad How to better understand thermodynamics? With statistical mechanics?
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Undergrad Understanding the Effects of Wavelength and Frequency on IR and UV Heat Transfer
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High School Why substances can undergo sublimation and turn into gas?
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Graduate Why is the phenomenon of increasing entropy not as straightforward as it seems?
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High School Color of clothes - heat management
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Graduate Solving Thermo Problem: $\Delta U$, $\Delta K_{cm}$, $\Delta I$, $W_{ext}$, $Q$
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Undergrad Could an Unheated Glass Coffee Table Explode in a Normal Domestic Environment?
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High School Earth's surface temp without atmosphere vs moon's
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Graduate Modeling Heat Transfer for Different Shapes and Fluids
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Undergrad How to calculate the temperature of an insulated heat emitting body?
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Undergrad Do bubbles heat up as they collapse?
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Undergrad Thermal transfer between two barrels
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Undergrad Temperature's Impact on Gravitational Pull
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Graduate Equivalent Thermal Properties of Egg
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Graduate Can temperature be expressed in terms of mass, displacement, time, and charge?
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Undergrad Can Hydrogen and Water Create a Sustainable Energy Cycle?
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High School Why is air always cold when it moves at high speeds?
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Graduate Earth mass conversion to thermal energy
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High School What is the point of Newton's First Law?
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Undergrad Heat: The Potential to Do Work
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High School IDK anything about Physics and Heat, help
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Graduate Entropy as Vector: Q as Direction, T as Magnitude?
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High School Why Do Heated Water Molecules Always Rise?
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Graduate Correlating Leak Rates for Helium, Air & R134a - Michael
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Graduate Usage of statistical variables
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Graduate Change in Entropy and adiabatic process
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Graduate Ideal Gas Law for concave objects
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Undergrad Trying to find something about eternity engine
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Undergrad .Verifying Heat Capacity at Constant Pressure and Volume
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Undergrad Solving the Mystery of Water Freezing Instantly in a Bowl
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High School Why Does My Tea Container Explode When I Shake It?
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High School Thermal conductivity chart. K
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Graduate What Determines a Microstate's Identity?
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High School Why do baggy pants keep you warmer than tight pants?
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High School Lecture notes for the following topics.
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Graduate Density of black body radiation
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High School Solar powered heater for greenhouse
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High School Reversible and irreversible process?
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Undergrad Specific Heat Constant Volume Question
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Undergrad Energy: Real Thing - Different Forms & Mass as Dense Concentration
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Graduate How Does Steady State Heat Conduction Impact Home Heating System Design?
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Undergrad What is Negative Temperature and How Does it Work?
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Graduate Max Temp Equilibrium: Achieving Max w/ Bodies at TA & TB
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Undergrad How Does an Air Conditioner Alter the Volume, Temperature, and Pressure of Gas?
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Undergrad Thermal dependancy of conductance
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High School What is Energy if it can't be destroyed?
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High School Energy Conversion: Is There Such a Thing as 'Lost' Energy?
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Undergrad Do light bulbs or convection heaters heat a room with the highest efficiency?
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Undergrad R Thermodynamics: Heat Pump Efficiency Comparison
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Graduate Is the 2nd law by definition true?
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Undergrad How temperature affects GM tube performance?
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Undergrad Confused about isothermal processes
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Graduate Explaining Time: The Emergence of Entropy and the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics
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High School A Question About Newton's Third Law
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Graduate Confinement of Thermalized plasmas: Why not E instead B?
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Undergrad Understanding Linear Distortion and Divergence in Thermodynamics
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Graduate What does translational energy have to do with entropy change?
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High School Absolute Zero: Understanding Heat and Molecular Vibrations
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Undergrad Why Balance and Reverse Transformations Are Key in Thermodynamics
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High School Hot Air: Does It Rise or Is It Heat Transfer?
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Undergrad Can Heating Elements Achieve 100% Efficiency in Energy Conversion?
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Undergrad Atom Temperature: Kinetic Energy of Subatomic Particles?
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High School What happens to the energy when we accelerate and decelerate objects?
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Undergrad Can the gas law be applied at high temp?
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Graduate Determining temperature of heat bath
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