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Undergrad Heating a dark non-reflective body in space

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High School Understanding the Effects of Light on Material Heating

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Graduate Is there a relationship between temperature and entropy for crystals?

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High School Can a Jet Engine Work Without Air?

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Undergrad Cooling faster in space, or in Antarctica?

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Undergrad Optimizing Air Conditioning Efficiency Using Calculus

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High School Understand the Cooling Effect of a Fridge with 35 kW Capacity | Easy Explanation

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Undergrad Question: conservation of E and Newton's second law

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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?

  • Reshma
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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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