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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?

  • nolanp2
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Undergrad Can Heating Elements Achieve 100% Efficiency in Energy Conversion?

  • Trail_Builder
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Undergrad Atom Temperature: Kinetic Energy of Subatomic Particles?

  • nolanp2
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High School What happens to the energy when we accelerate and decelerate objects?

  • disregardthat
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Undergrad Can the gas law be applied at high temp?

  • haiha
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Graduate Determining temperature of heat bath

  • fizziks
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Graduate Why is this not a violation to the 2nd law of thermodynamics?

  • LTP
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Graduate The formation of blackbody radiation

  • jauram
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High School Does Newton's Third Law Explain the Different Fall Rates of Water and Glass?

  • mrcore64
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Graduate Subatomic mechanism of heat transfer by convection?

  • Hayaichi
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High School Ideal Gas Law: Low Pressure Application

  • pixel01
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Undergrad Can an Indestructible Vacuum Globe Float in the Atmosphere?

  • rabbitandcrow
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Graduate Black Body Radiation Calculation: Unveiling My Cluelessness

  • LHarriger
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Undergrad Calculating Joules to Compress Air: Dan's Question

  • Dalau
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Undergrad The Conceptual Side of Specific Heat Capacity

  • Izzhov
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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

  • dilan
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High School Specific Heat Capacity of metals

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High School Answers to Shower Questions - aF

  • americanforest
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Graduate Is there a relationship between mean free path and thermal equilibrium?

  • Hot_phonon
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Undergrad Are EM radiation frequencies quantified?

  • cgw
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High School Thermal Expansion - Find Current for Iron, Aluminium & Copper Coils

  • dazza24383
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Undergrad Question about perpetual machines

  • linux kid
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Graduate Is the entropy in the universe increasing?

  • harvhk852
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Graduate Understanding of irreversibility

  • erty
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Undergrad Thermal Conductivity for metals

  • Dhesi
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Undergrad Toasting-what form of heating?

  • pivoxa15
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High School Why Warm Air Rises: Intro Physics Book Explained

  • pivoxa15
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Graduate Thermodynamics unified with QM?

  • jrrship
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Graduate Universal Medium: Heat as the Universe's Universal Medium?

  • Glynis
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Graduate Going Below 0° Kelvin: Universal Inertia?

  • Glynis
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High School Why is 100% efficient thermal insulator impossible?

  • linux kid
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Undergrad Rutherford's Gold Leaf experiment with Beta Radiation

  • Jozers
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High School What Does Heat Rejection Really Mean in Refrigeration?

  • wrharper
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High School Heat: Atoms or Electrons - What Moves?

  • linux kid
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High School Setting Up an Experiment to Test Efficiency of Old Thermos

  • spl3001
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Undergrad Is there some type of Thermal Ceiling?

  • Plasma
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Undergrad Heat Transfer in Electrical Circuits

  • Isaac Ratz
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Graduate Explaining the Immiscibility of Oil and Water: A Thermodynamic Perspective

  • erty
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High School How exactly is thermal energy transfered?

  • linux kid
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Undergrad Energy Minimization: Nature's Law?

  • pivoxa15
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Graduate What entity has the highest entropy density in the universe?

  • Loren Booda
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Graduate Is there a relationship between \Delta H_{sys} and \Delta S_{surroundings}?

  • erty
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Graduate Thermodynamics: reversible process, equilibrium and entropy

  • Andy_ToK
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Undergrad Best way to generate heat in portable battery powered application

  • mike gibson
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High School Why Do We Feel Colder? The Science Behind Our Sensation of Coldness"

  • pivoxa15
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High School Question on Newton's first law of motion

  • ranger
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Undergrad Can't Get Energy from Black Body with Solar Cell

  • Manchot
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Graduate Phenomenological theories: thermodynamics

  • Signifier
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High School What is heat? what is kinetic energy?

  • blackbird3
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High School What Is the Law That Says You Can Only Get Out What You Put In?

  • karae12
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Undergrad Can Electric or Magnetic Fields Induce Liquid to Gas Transitions?

  • roger5
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Undergrad Rotation problem in game engine

  • adamjmacky
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Undergrad Checking thermocouple knowledge

  • Micko
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Undergrad Rate of Heat Absorption from Visible vs Infrared Light

  • sphoenixee
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High School Rubber Bands and Heating: Does Weight Go Up or Down?

  • daniel_i_l
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Graduate Newtons first law: implications on kinetic energy

  • kmarinas86
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Graduate Understanding Entropy and Its Relationship to Length and Temperature Changes

  • leright
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Undergrad Where Does Energy Go According to the Second Law of Thermodynamics?

  • Answerseeker18
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High School How Long Should I Cook Two Small Christmas Puddings Instead of One?

  • X=7
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Graduate What is R in the Debye Heat Capacity Equation?

  • axawire
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High School Difficulties understanding some basic concepts of thermodynamics

  • shamanblues
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Undergrad How is Cherenkov Radiation created and what experiments produce it?

  • Chaos' lil bro Order
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High School Chill Beer to 22F Without Freezing: Physics Explained

  • hulkster69
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Undergrad Effect of temperature on a squash ball

  • destinct
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High School Defining Energy: Types, Einstein's Formula, & More

  • student85
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Graduate Earth as an energy source & sink

  • dsky
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High School Why Does Sunlight Warm My Skin?

  • sneez
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Undergrad Thermodynamics - How do I create energy level diagrams

  • physicsnnewbie
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Undergrad How pressure and temperature affects volumetric flow?

  • Micko
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Graduate Question about 'Entropy-driven'

  • wangasu
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Undergrad Hydrogen-Oxygen Rocket Engines

  • Kunzite
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Undergrad Understanding Pressure in Water Pump Systems

  • Micko
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Undergrad Calculating Temperature Increase in Copper Wires

  • josefbrandt
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Undergrad What happens when you heat plasma?

  • Skhandelwal
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Graduate What is the Meaning of "U" in One-Dimensional Gas?

  • Karlisbad
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High School Settle the Debate: Boiling Time of Water at Different Temperatures on Stove

  • tammikec
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High School Categorizing Energy: Actualized vs. Latent

  • Mattius_
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High School Why does everything goes to equilibrium?

  • Skhandelwal
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Undergrad Surface of the lense and temperature

  • SAZAR
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Graduate Gibbsian Ensemble: Kerson & Huang Explained

  • emob2p
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Undergrad When to apply the ideal gas law PV=nRT

  • quasar987
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Undergrad State Functions / State Variables

  • luckymango
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Undergrad An armchair scientist's question - Thermodynamics

  • faster
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Undergrad Does Heat Truly Get Trapped in the Earth's Atmosphere?

  • mtanti
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High School Why Does Condensation Not Occur in Air-Conditioned Buses?

  • Alan Tam
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Undergrad How Do Bubbles Form and Expand in Beer?

  • alnywk
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High School Do heat will flow from the lower energy to higher

  • alnywk
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Graduate Cooling element optimizing -advanced help needed

  • Ilkka
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Undergrad What Defines a Microstate in Coin Tossing?

  • ghotra
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Undergrad Radius of Cut Disc Changes When Heated

  • castaway
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High School Does Ice Melt at 0 Degrees Celsius?

  • unscientific
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Undergrad How does the top of a lake freeze

  • zhengwei
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Undergrad It takes an input of energy to convert liquid to vapour ,so increse

  • alnywk
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Undergrad Why Coke Squeezes Out After Shaking: Thermodynamics Explained

  • alnywk
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Graduate Entropy and the early univesre

  • bananan
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Graduate Radiation emissions from glow-in-the-dark toys

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