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Graduate Hawking Radiation: violate laws of conservation?
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High School When elctrons pass through a bulb it poduces heat and light why?
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Undergrad Universal Mountain/Sea Thermometer
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High School Thermal properties of bottled vs. tap water
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Undergrad Variation of rubber with temperature
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Transparent Metal: Debate Over Turbine Wheel Visibility
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Undergrad What Cold Weather Physics Experiments Can You Try in Alaska?
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Graduate Relating Radiancy to Energy Density?
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Undergrad Does evolution violate the 2nd law of thermodynamics
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Undergrad Can Light Waves Offer an Innovative Solution for Cooling Electronics?
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High School What Happens During Free Expansion?
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Undergrad How does thermal radiation occur on a microscopic scale?
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Undergrad Solving the Mystery of the Sealed Room's Temperature
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High School Mercury Barometer: Does Temperature Affect Height?
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Graduate How High Can a Helium Fountain at the Lambda Point Reach?
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Graduate Invariance of Newton's second law
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Undergrad NASA Scientist Demonstrates Thermal Tile Heat Resistance
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Undergrad Temperature and Standard Deviation
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Graduate Explore E=MC² & Thermodynamics at www.ScienceParameter.com
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Graduate Statistical Models: Fermi-Dirac & Beyond - Key Features & Usage
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Undergrad How Can You Determine the Size of a Hole in a Gas-Filled Container?
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Undergrad Adiabatic Process: No Energy Change but Temperature Change?
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Undergrad Difference between enthelphy and heat?
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Undergrad Heat Pump: A Closer Look at its Working Process
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Undergrad Gas Problem Dealing with Explosives
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Undergrad How Does the 1st Law of Thermodynamics Explain Birth and Growth?
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High School Does Driving Faster Increase Gas Mileage Efficiency?
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High School Does light have a temperature?
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Graduate Status of Ergodicity: FPU, KdV & Collisions
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Undergrad Information about the Laws of Energy
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Undergrad What force accelerates a heated air molecule?
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Graduate Boltzmann factor and partition function
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Undergrad Measuring Temperature using wavelenghts
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Undergrad Calculating Heat Transfer Rate in a Changing System
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High School Temperature Question: Is 53.8 Degrees Celsius Correct?
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High School Air cooling problem? have answer
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High School Temperature - is that the right word?
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Graduate How Does the Clausius-Clapeyron Equation Explain Temperature Changes in Liquids?
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Graduate Negative Specific Heat: Definition & Possibility
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Undergrad Finding Temp. Info for Outdoor Pool Physics Project
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Graduate Can Life Emerge from Entropy Without Violating Thermodynamics?
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Graduate Thermodynamic vs Psych' Arrow of Time
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Graduate Understanding the Limit of Irreversibility: Free Expansion Explanation
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Graduate Emissivity of a flat surface varies with zenith angle
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High School Can Experimenting with Different Materials Help Understand Heat Retention?
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High School Dangerous Outcome of Sealing Dry-Ice in Box
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Undergrad Is Dissolved Air in Water Still Considered a Gas?
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Graduate Entropy and the second law of thermodynamics
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Undergrad Heat Radiation by Groups of Atoms
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High School Everything in a given environment have the same temperature
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Graduate Does an Irreversible Adiabatic Process Defy the Equation PV^(gamma)=constant?
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Graduate How can cold radiation heat?
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High School Why do metal objects behave violently in microwave radiation?
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Undergrad Heat Capacity of Snow vs Water
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Graduate Why U is a State Function if W(adiabatic) Does Not Depend on State?
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High School How Many Laws of Thermodynamics Are There?
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Graduate Where does the lost energy go?
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Graduate U=Cv(dT) and Enthelphy=Cp(dt) for all processes in thermodynamics?
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Graduate EM Radiation versus Transverse Waves
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Graduate Understanding the approach to equilibrium for a statistical system
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Graduate Thermal Wavelength: Meaning & Fugacity z
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Undergrad Time for a Gas to Expand: Can You Determine the Speed of Expansion?
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Graduate The Arrow of Time: Entropy & System Evolution
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Undergrad Ideal Rolling: static friction and temperature
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Graduate Is the universe thermodynamically open or closed?
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Graduate How does stopping a moving gas affect its temperature?
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Graduate Function for Cp/Cv for H2O(g) accurate to 3000 K
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High School Where Does Fire Go? | Science & Math Explained
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Undergrad Universal gas, Boltzmann's constant
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Graduate Harnessing Heat: Can We Make Energy Out of Heat Loss?
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High School Is External Energy Loss Essential in Calculating Final Energy?
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How does a heat to energy converter work?
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Graduate Gibbs Free Energy: Pressure Change Calculations
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Undergrad Finding a temperature rise in a resistor. HELP
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Graduate Alien species produced memories
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Undergrad Heat & Movement: Frame of Reference & Kinetic Energy
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Undergrad Calculating Computer Heat Generation with Thermoelectric Cooling Device
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Graduate Solving Thermal Question: How Long Can Supermarket Product Be Stored at 0°C?
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Undergrad Efficient Cooling for Industrial Rooms: How to Calculate Energy Needs
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High School A 10-Pound Bag of Ice and Cooling Room Temperature
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Graduate Thermal equilibrium in statistical physics
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Graduate Efficiency of an infinite series of Carnot cycles
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Undergrad Thermodynamics of Hell Question
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Undergrad Finding the Integral of YdX: A Different Approach
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High School Thermodynamics Vehicle: 0.rule Explained
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High School Demonstration to show convection in class
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Graduate What Causes Energy to Dissipate and How Does Stability Arise in Matter?
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Graduate The logic conflict of the second law of thermodynamics
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High School Does Heat Affect the Weight of a Fork?
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High School Light Bulb Temperatures: Home vs Office
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Graduate Does equilibrium imply max. entropy in statistical mechanics?
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Undergrad Convert Mol/cm3 to PPMV: Pressure & Temp Considerations
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Undergrad What Defines Order and Disorder in the Context of Entropy?
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High School Temperature/Kinetic Energy Question
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Undergrad Ignition Temp: Gasoline vs. Ethanol?
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Undergrad Ideal gases and Vector calculus
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Graduate Efficient Heat Transfer Device for High Temperature Systems
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Undergrad Heat Energy & Mass: How Can Snow Have More Heat Energy?
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Graduate Heating Materials with Photon Energy Explained
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High School Newcomer Asks: What is the Final Temperature?
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