Thermodynamics Forum

Undergrad What are the other state functions and how do we determine them?

High School Why does everything achieves to reach equilibrium?

High School Why does anything that accelerates heat up?

Graduate Relative humidity calc at high temps

Graduate Does maximum temperature exist?

Undergrad Maximizing Efficiency: House Heating in a Closed System

High School Adiabatic Cooling: Q&A for Dummies

Undergrad Calculate Water Temperature in Pond Receiving Hot Water: Formula Included

Undergrad How do electrons absorb and emit photons?

High School Does opening an icebox in isolated space raise or lower the temperature?

Undergrad Radiative heat transfer and states of matter

Undergrad Why Doesn't Cold Water in a Tub Get Hotter Over Time?

Graduate How Can New Stars Form from Chaos While Entropy Increases?

High School How Do I Calculate the Cost of Running My Air Conditioner?

Undergrad Some notes on carnot cycle,second law of thermodynamics

High School Conservation of Energy: Pushing Boxes

High School How do I use heat to create cooling?

Undergrad The typical formula for temperature drop in evaporative cooling models

High School Can Heating a Copper Coin Change the Radius of its Centre Hole?

Undergrad Heating unit of meas. BTU/hr ft^2/deg.

Graduate Night Sky Cooler: Can Hot Water Cool?

High School Calculating power of heating element

High School Can Fire Melt Steel? Investigating the Controversy Surrounding 9/11 Conspiracies

Undergrad Why does the water in frozen pipes burst with no energy input?

Graduate Why does dS = dQ / T in Entropy?

High School Do Ideal Gases Absorb Heat When Expanded?

Graduate Jet engine thermodynamic non sequitur.

High School Beat the Heat: Feel the Breeze for Cool Comfort

Undergrad Energy Violation Puzzle - The use of Negative Buoyancy to run a turbine

High School Does a Warm Gasoline and Air Mixture Rise in a Cooler Environment?

Graduate Dr. James Sethna's Stat Mech Book | Applications to Computational Stat Mech

Graduate Thermo Radiation and Temperature

High School Why do rocket engines work in the vacuum of space?

Graduate Intutive understanding of entropy

Graduate Extracting energy from air at room temperature help

Graduate Why Does Salty Ice Cool Drinks Faster?

Graduate What Tube Length Is Needed for Helium-4 Flow at 4.2K?

Graduate Stat Mech vs. Greek atomistic hypothesis?

Graduate Simulating heat transfer as a function of time between two bodies

Undergrad How do I calculate BTU? (for a water heater project)

High School Temperature and color - why hot objects glow red?

Undergrad How to better understand thermodynamics? With statistical mechanics?

Undergrad Understanding the Effects of Wavelength and Frequency on IR and UV Heat Transfer

High School Why substances can undergo sublimation and turn into gas?

Graduate Why is the phenomenon of increasing entropy not as straightforward as it seems?

High School Color of clothes - heat management

Graduate Solving Thermo Problem: $\Delta U$, $\Delta K_{cm}$, $\Delta I$, $W_{ext}$, $Q$

Undergrad Could an Unheated Glass Coffee Table Explode in a Normal Domestic Environment?

High School Earth's surface temp without atmosphere vs moon's

Graduate Modeling Heat Transfer for Different Shapes and Fluids

Undergrad How to calculate the temperature of an insulated heat emitting body?

Undergrad Do bubbles heat up as they collapse?

Undergrad Thermal transfer between two barrels

Undergrad Temperature's Impact on Gravitational Pull

Graduate Equivalent Thermal Properties of Egg

Graduate Can temperature be expressed in terms of mass, displacement, time, and charge?

Undergrad Can Hydrogen and Water Create a Sustainable Energy Cycle?

High School Why is air always cold when it moves at high speeds?

Graduate Earth mass conversion to thermal energy

High School What is the point of Newton's First Law?

Undergrad Heat: The Potential to Do Work

High School IDK anything about Physics and Heat, help

Graduate Entropy as Vector: Q as Direction, T as Magnitude?

High School Why Do Heated Water Molecules Always Rise?

Graduate Correlating Leak Rates for Helium, Air & R134a - Michael

Graduate Usage of statistical variables

Graduate Change in Entropy and adiabatic process

Graduate Ideal Gas Law for concave objects

Undergrad Trying to find something about eternity engine

Undergrad .Verifying Heat Capacity at Constant Pressure and Volume

Undergrad Solving the Mystery of Water Freezing Instantly in a Bowl

High School Why Does My Tea Container Explode When I Shake It?

High School Thermal conductivity chart. K

Graduate What Determines a Microstate's Identity?

High School Why do baggy pants keep you warmer than tight pants?

High School Lecture notes for the following topics.

Graduate Density of black body radiation

High School Solar powered heater for greenhouse

High School Reversible and irreversible process?

Undergrad Specific Heat Constant Volume Question

Undergrad Energy: Real Thing - Different Forms & Mass as Dense Concentration

Graduate How Does Steady State Heat Conduction Impact Home Heating System Design?

Undergrad What is Negative Temperature and How Does it Work?

Graduate Max Temp Equilibrium: Achieving Max w/ Bodies at TA & TB

Undergrad How Does an Air Conditioner Alter the Volume, Temperature, and Pressure of Gas?

Undergrad Thermal dependancy of conductance

High School What is Energy if it can't be destroyed?

High School Energy Conversion: Is There Such a Thing as 'Lost' Energy?

Undergrad Do light bulbs or convection heaters heat a room with the highest efficiency?

Undergrad R Thermodynamics: Heat Pump Efficiency Comparison

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Graduate Is the 2nd law by definition true?

Undergrad How temperature affects GM tube performance?

Undergrad Confused about isothermal processes

Graduate Explaining Time: The Emergence of Entropy and the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics

High School A Question About Newton's Third Law

Graduate Confinement of Thermalized plasmas: Why not E instead B?

Undergrad Understanding Linear Distortion and Divergence in Thermodynamics

Graduate What does translational energy have to do with entropy change?