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Graduate Why is this not a violation to the 2nd law of thermodynamics?
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Graduate The formation of blackbody radiation
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High School Does Newton's Third Law Explain the Different Fall Rates of Water and Glass?
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Graduate Subatomic mechanism of heat transfer by convection?
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High School Ideal Gas Law: Low Pressure Application
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Undergrad Can an Indestructible Vacuum Globe Float in the Atmosphere?
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Graduate Black Body Radiation Calculation: Unveiling My Cluelessness
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Undergrad Calculating Joules to Compress Air: Dan's Question
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Undergrad The Conceptual Side of Specific Heat Capacity
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Undergrad How Does the Leidenfrost Effect Explain Walking on Hot Coals?
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High School Specific Heat of Brass Alloys - Table of Values
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Undergrad Kepler's Third Law: Eliptical Orbits & Planet Masses
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High School Specific Heat Capacity of metals
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High School Answers to Shower Questions - aF
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Graduate Is there a relationship between mean free path and thermal equilibrium?
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Undergrad Are EM radiation frequencies quantified?
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High School Thermal Expansion - Find Current for Iron, Aluminium & Copper Coils
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Undergrad Question about perpetual machines
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Graduate Is the entropy in the universe increasing?
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Graduate Understanding of irreversibility
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Undergrad Thermal Conductivity for metals
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Undergrad Toasting-what form of heating?
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High School Why Warm Air Rises: Intro Physics Book Explained
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Graduate Thermodynamics unified with QM?
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Graduate Universal Medium: Heat as the Universe's Universal Medium?
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Graduate Going Below 0° Kelvin: Universal Inertia?
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High School Why is 100% efficient thermal insulator impossible?
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Undergrad Rutherford's Gold Leaf experiment with Beta Radiation
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High School What Does Heat Rejection Really Mean in Refrigeration?
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High School Heat: Atoms or Electrons - What Moves?
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High School Setting Up an Experiment to Test Efficiency of Old Thermos
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Undergrad Is there some type of Thermal Ceiling?
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Undergrad Heat Transfer in Electrical Circuits
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Graduate Explaining the Immiscibility of Oil and Water: A Thermodynamic Perspective
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High School How exactly is thermal energy transfered?
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Undergrad Energy Minimization: Nature's Law?
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Graduate What entity has the highest entropy density in the universe?
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Graduate Is there a relationship between \Delta H_{sys} and \Delta S_{surroundings}?
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Graduate Thermodynamics: reversible process, equilibrium and entropy
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Undergrad Best way to generate heat in portable battery powered application
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High School Why Do We Feel Colder? The Science Behind Our Sensation of Coldness"
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High School Question on Newton's first law of motion
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Undergrad Can't Get Energy from Black Body with Solar Cell
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Graduate Phenomenological theories: thermodynamics
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High School What is heat? what is kinetic energy?
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High School What Is the Law That Says You Can Only Get Out What You Put In?
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Undergrad Can Electric or Magnetic Fields Induce Liquid to Gas Transitions?
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Undergrad Rotation problem in game engine
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Undergrad Checking thermocouple knowledge
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Undergrad Rate of Heat Absorption from Visible vs Infrared Light
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High School Rubber Bands and Heating: Does Weight Go Up or Down?
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Graduate Newtons first law: implications on kinetic energy
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Graduate Understanding Entropy and Its Relationship to Length and Temperature Changes
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Undergrad Where Does Energy Go According to the Second Law of Thermodynamics?
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High School How Long Should I Cook Two Small Christmas Puddings Instead of One?
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Graduate What is R in the Debye Heat Capacity Equation?
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High School Difficulties understanding some basic concepts of thermodynamics
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Undergrad How is Cherenkov Radiation created and what experiments produce it?
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High School Chill Beer to 22F Without Freezing: Physics Explained
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Undergrad Effect of temperature on a squash ball
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High School Defining Energy: Types, Einstein's Formula, & More
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Graduate Earth as an energy source & sink
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High School Why Does Sunlight Warm My Skin?
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Undergrad Thermodynamics - How do I create energy level diagrams
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Undergrad How pressure and temperature affects volumetric flow?
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Graduate Question about 'Entropy-driven'
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Undergrad Hydrogen-Oxygen Rocket Engines
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Undergrad Understanding Pressure in Water Pump Systems
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Undergrad Calculating Temperature Increase in Copper Wires
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Undergrad What happens when you heat plasma?
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Graduate What is the Meaning of "U" in One-Dimensional Gas?
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High School Settle the Debate: Boiling Time of Water at Different Temperatures on Stove
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High School Categorizing Energy: Actualized vs. Latent
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High School Why does everything goes to equilibrium?
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Undergrad Surface of the lense and temperature
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Graduate Gibbsian Ensemble: Kerson & Huang Explained
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Undergrad When to apply the ideal gas law PV=nRT
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Undergrad State Functions / State Variables
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Undergrad An armchair scientist's question - Thermodynamics
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Undergrad Does Heat Truly Get Trapped in the Earth's Atmosphere?
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High School Why Does Condensation Not Occur in Air-Conditioned Buses?
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Undergrad How Do Bubbles Form and Expand in Beer?
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High School Do heat will flow from the lower energy to higher
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Graduate Cooling element optimizing -advanced help needed
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Undergrad What Defines a Microstate in Coin Tossing?
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Undergrad Radius of Cut Disc Changes When Heated
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High School Does Ice Melt at 0 Degrees Celsius?
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Undergrad How does the top of a lake freeze
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Undergrad It takes an input of energy to convert liquid to vapour ,so increse
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Undergrad Why Coke Squeezes Out After Shaking: Thermodynamics Explained
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Graduate Entropy and the early univesre
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Graduate Radiation emissions from glow-in-the-dark toys
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Undergrad Why Does Blood Boil in a Vacuum?
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Undergrad Building an Egg Incubator Box: Calculating Heat-up Time
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Undergrad Compressing nitrogen and its characteristics
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Graduate Residual Entropy: Do All Particles Have It at Absolute Zero?
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High School Why Does a Bunsen Burner Flame Stay at the Top?”
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Graduate Solving Statistical Physics Equations of Motion for N-Particle Systems
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Undergrad What is Entropy and How Does It Vary in Different Systems and Reactions?
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Graduate Noncentral potential and Newton third law
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