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Graduate Confused by some aspects of thermodynamics

May 8, 2005 · Replies 1 · May 8, 2005

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High School Why Did a Coin Jump Off a Heated Light Bulb?

May 1, 2005 · Replies 37 · May 8, 2005

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Undergrad What is the science behind brick ovens and their superior cooking abilities?

May 5, 2005 · Replies 3 · May 8, 2005

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Undergrad Change in GIbbs free energy for ethanol

May 7, 2005 · Replies 3 · May 7, 2005

Replies: 3

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Undergrad Measuring Brick Temp: Thermocouple/Pyrometer & Microammeter

Apr 28, 2005 · Replies 7 · May 5, 2005

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Graduate Comparing dQ/dt & dT/dt of a Cube & a Globe

May 4, 2005 · Replies 3 · May 5, 2005

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High School Explaining How Air Weighs in an Evacuated Flask

Apr 25, 2005 · Replies 40 · May 3, 2005

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Undergrad Twin engine jet airplane lands

May 2, 2005 · Replies 2 · May 3, 2005

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High School Can You Electrocute Yourself With Water Heater?

May 1, 2005 · Replies 1 · May 1, 2005

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Undergrad Temperature graph of a certain experiment

May 1, 2005 · Replies 3 · May 1, 2005

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High School What is the Triple Point and How Does It Work?

Apr 30, 2005 · Replies 2 · Apr 30, 2005

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High School Why Does Hot Water Conduct Heat Easier Downwards?

Apr 30, 2005 · Replies 7 · Apr 30, 2005

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Graduate Explain the exact notion of an ensemble

Apr 25, 2005 · Replies 2 · Apr 26, 2005

Replies: 2

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High School EM radiation and Nuclear Radiation

Apr 24, 2005 · Replies 6 · Apr 24, 2005

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Undergrad What is main concept of implimentation of equations.?

Apr 13, 2005 · Replies 6 · Apr 23, 2005

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Graduate Gibbs' Paradox and Ideal Gas Mixture Entropy

Apr 18, 2005 · Replies 7 · Apr 20, 2005

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Undergrad Reversible heat exchange with surroundings

Apr 10, 2005 · Replies 20 · Apr 16, 2005

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High School Colder water better thermal conductor?

Apr 15, 2005 · Replies 4 · Apr 15, 2005

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Undergrad Solar Cells incident angle of radiation.

Apr 14, 2005 · Replies 1 · Apr 14, 2005

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Undergrad Understand Degenerative Breaking & Heat Dissipation

Apr 7, 2005 · Replies 7 · Apr 12, 2005

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High School Is it safe to supercool something in my house

Apr 11, 2005 · Replies 6 · Apr 11, 2005

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Graduate Heat Availabilty & Its Physical Mission

Apr 8, 2005 · Replies 3 · Apr 11, 2005

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Graduate Can the Second Law of Thermodynamics Be Proven Empirically?

Apr 7, 2005 · Replies 17 · Apr 8, 2005

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Graduate Exploring Entropy: Macro vs. Micro Reductionism and Separationism

Apr 7, 2005 · Replies 6 · Apr 7, 2005

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Undergrad How Do You Model Time-Varying Heat Conduction in a Simple House Simulation?

Apr 6, 2005 · Replies 1 · Apr 6, 2005

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Undergrad How exactly is heat transferred?

Apr 6, 2005 · Replies 2 · Apr 6, 2005

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Undergrad Time it takes to reach equilibrium

Apr 2, 2005 · Replies 7 · Apr 5, 2005

Replies: 7

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How do you estimate the temperature 20 feet belowground?

Aug 5, 2004 · Replies 1 · Apr 4, 2005

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Undergrad Measurement for force, distance and time for a treadmill

Apr 3, 2005 · Replies 1 · Apr 4, 2005

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Graduate Calculating Entropy of 2D Free Particles: Statistical Physics Challenge

Apr 1, 2005 · Replies 4 · Apr 1, 2005

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Undergrad Solving the Otto Cycle Ideal MEP Query

Mar 30, 2005 · Replies 4 · Apr 1, 2005

Replies: 4

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Undergrad Can lost energy from inefficiency only be transferred as heat or radiation?

Mar 27, 2005 · Replies 6 · Mar 28, 2005

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Undergrad Cooling capacity of an aircon compressor

Mar 13, 2005 · Replies 18 · Mar 21, 2005

Replies: 18

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High School Does Blowing Warm Air Cool a Hot Potato Faster Than Natural Cooling?

Mar 21, 2005 · Replies 1 · Mar 21, 2005

Replies: 1

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High School Will Heating a Liquid-Filled Bottle Cause It to Explode?

Mar 19, 2005 · Replies 4 · Mar 20, 2005

Replies: 4

Views: 3K

Undergrad Final Temp of Water in Calorimeter After Heating Silver Ring

Mar 14, 2005 · Replies 1 · Mar 14, 2005

Replies: 1

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Undergrad Thermodynamics: Modelling the internal environment of a tent

Mar 14, 2005 · Replies 1 · Mar 14, 2005

Replies: 1

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High School You can freeze water by heating it? apparently

Mar 10, 2005 · Replies 3 · Mar 10, 2005

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High School Using a Thermistor as a Crude Thermometer

Feb 15, 2005 · Replies 11 · Mar 7, 2005

Replies: 11

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Undergrad Discovering the Initial Temperature of a Heated Metal Bolt with Thermodynamics

Mar 6, 2005 · Replies 28 · Mar 6, 2005

Replies: 28

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Undergrad Introduced to the concept of entropy in school

Feb 27, 2005 · Replies 20 · Mar 6, 2005

Replies: 20

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Undergrad Inverse square law and Kepler's third law

Feb 25, 2005 · Replies 26 · Mar 5, 2005

Replies: 26

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Undergrad What exactly is equilibrium in thermodynamics?

Feb 26, 2005 · Replies 2 · Mar 4, 2005

Replies: 2

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Undergrad Viscosity Help: Calculating Glycerol Viscosity w/ Data

Feb 26, 2005 · Replies 11 · Feb 28, 2005

Replies: 11

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Graduate Do a state function be multu-valued function

Feb 23, 2005 · Replies 14 · Feb 25, 2005

Replies: 14

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Graduate The Paradox of Gas Density: Why Is the Center Not Higher?

Feb 24, 2005 · Replies 6 · Feb 25, 2005

Replies: 6

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Undergrad Need some help understanding some thermal physics

Feb 17, 2005 · Replies 6 · Feb 21, 2005

Replies: 6

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Undergrad Understanding Heat and Resistors: Explained for Non-Experts

Feb 16, 2005 · Replies 2 · Feb 16, 2005

Replies: 2

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Graduate Question about entropy of photons

Feb 3, 2005 · Replies 32 · Feb 12, 2005

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High School Why Does Ice Cream Soften Differently Than Bread in the Microwave?

Feb 4, 2005 · Replies 9 · Feb 9, 2005

Replies: 9

Views: 3K

Graduate Detecting Black Hole Radiation: How Does It Work?

Feb 9, 2005 · Replies 3 · Feb 9, 2005

Replies: 3

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High School Skydiving Temperature: The Impact of Air Resistance on Body Heat

Jan 30, 2005 · Replies 20 · Feb 6, 2005

Replies: 20

Views: 16K

Graduate Characterizing Volume in Equilibrium Thermodynamics

Feb 2, 2005 · Replies 3 · Feb 2, 2005

Replies: 3

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Graduate Condensor Power thermodynamics

Jan 31, 2005 · Replies 9 · Feb 2, 2005

Replies: 9

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Graduate Do Accelerating Observers Detect Radiation from a Stationary Charge?

Jan 29, 2005 · Replies 15 · Jan 31, 2005

Replies: 15

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Undergrad Need help understanding black body radiation

Jan 28, 2005 · Replies 4 · Jan 31, 2005

Replies: 4

Views: 2K

Graduate Help with Thermodynamics Problems

Jan 26, 2005 · Replies 6 · Jan 30, 2005

Replies: 6

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Graduate Yet another radiation question

Jan 29, 2005 · Replies 1 · Jan 29, 2005

Replies: 1

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Graduate Question about Planck's Law of Radiation

Jan 26, 2005 · Replies 16 · Jan 28, 2005

Replies: 16

Views: 6K

Graduate Temperature in Space: Radiometer, Condensation, Electrostatic Energy

Jan 26, 2005 · Replies 2 · Jan 27, 2005

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Undergrad Building a Thermal Energy Storage System: What Additive Can I Use?

Jan 27, 2005 · Replies 1 · Jan 27, 2005

Replies: 1

Views: 2K

High School Heat Transfer Capability of Substances

Jan 23, 2005 · Replies 10 · Jan 24, 2005

Replies: 10

Views: 6K

High School Discover the Science Behind Salt's Ability to Melt Ice

Jan 19, 2005 · Replies 14 · Jan 20, 2005

Replies: 14

Views: 24K

High School Ideal gas law problems: Pascals vs Atms?

Jan 15, 2005 · Replies 3 · Jan 15, 2005

Replies: 3

Views: 24K

Graduate Question about Entropy/Shannon Information

Jan 12, 2005 · Replies 3 · Jan 12, 2005

Replies: 3

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Undergrad Thermionic Emission: What Causes Electrons to be Emitted?

Jan 8, 2005 · Replies 2 · Jan 8, 2005

Replies: 2

Views: 3K

Graduate Why is the temperature of a non-equilibrium system undefined?

Jan 5, 2005 · Replies 6 · Jan 5, 2005

Replies: 6

Views: 4K

Undergrad How Does Vibration Relate to the Third Law of Thermodynamics?

Jan 4, 2005 · Replies 6 · Jan 4, 2005

Replies: 6

Views: 3K

Graduate Lagrangian mechanics and thermodynamics

Dec 31, 2004 · Replies 1 · Dec 31, 2004

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Undergrad First Formulation of Second Law as F=ma ?

Dec 24, 2004 · Replies 8 · Dec 29, 2004

Replies: 8

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Graduate Does Temperature Influence the Energy of Matter?

Dec 24, 2004 · Replies 2 · Dec 25, 2004

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Graduate Ice Under Pressure: Density Changes at 0-14k psi?

Nov 30, 2004 · Replies 9 · Dec 22, 2004

Replies: 9

Views: 6K

High School What the heck is isometric heating?

Dec 15, 2004 · Replies 8 · Dec 16, 2004

Replies: 8

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High School Can Wind Make It Feel Warmer at Night?

Dec 14, 2004 · Replies 13 · Dec 16, 2004

Replies: 13

Views: 3K

Graduate Calculate Helmholtz Free Energy Change from Data

Dec 7, 2004 · Replies 3 · Dec 11, 2004

Replies: 3

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High School Coffee temperature and time of milk addition

Dec 7, 2004 · Replies 3 · Dec 8, 2004

Replies: 3

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High School What is absolute temperature?

Dec 4, 2004 · Replies 10 · Dec 6, 2004

Replies: 10

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Graduate Thermo Q: S2-S1=0? Why Doesn't Equation Yield 0?

Dec 5, 2004 · Replies 1 · Dec 6, 2004

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Undergrad Free expansion of an ideal gas

Dec 5, 2004 · Replies 5 · Dec 6, 2004

Replies: 5

Views: 12K

Graduate When Should You Use the Grand Partition Function in Statistical Mechanics?

Dec 2, 2004 · Replies 1 · Dec 3, 2004

Replies: 1

Views: 4K

Undergrad Newton's Third Law of a bullet

Nov 29, 2004 · Replies 14 · Dec 2, 2004

Replies: 14

Views: 7K

Undergrad Where does the heat come from?

Nov 27, 2004 · Replies 2 · Nov 27, 2004

Replies: 2

Views: 10K

Undergrad State variables in thermodynamics.

Nov 26, 2004 · Replies 6 · Nov 26, 2004

Replies: 6

Views: 26K

Undergrad Why is energy important in Infra-red spectroscopy?

Nov 17, 2004 · Replies 4 · Nov 25, 2004

Replies: 4

Views: 2K

High School Energy Conversion: Simple Ways to Transform Heat to Power

Nov 23, 2004 · Replies 2 · Nov 23, 2004

Replies: 2

Views: 2K

Undergrad Calculate Water Temperature in Copper Pipe After 1km

Nov 21, 2004 · Replies 4 · Nov 21, 2004

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Graduate Max Tempurature: Is There a Limit?

Nov 20, 2004 · Replies 7 · Nov 20, 2004

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High School Is absolute temperature a real concept or just a myth?

Nov 17, 2004 · Replies 5 · Nov 18, 2004

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Graduate Can Antennas Really Emit Zero Radiation?

Nov 16, 2004 · Replies 1 · Nov 17, 2004

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High School Heat Kinetic Energy: Definition & Explanation

Nov 16, 2004 · Replies 9 · Nov 17, 2004

Replies: 9

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Undergrad Ethel Alcohol vs Steam: Power Plant Turbines

Nov 9, 2004 · Replies 2 · Nov 10, 2004

Replies: 2

Views: 3K

Graduate Deriving the coefficients a and b in the Van der Waalls Equation of State

Nov 9, 2004 · Replies 2 · Nov 10, 2004

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Views: 2K

Undergrad Thermodynamics and was looking at the second law

Nov 6, 2004 · Replies 7 · Nov 9, 2004

Replies: 7

Views: 2K

Undergrad Temperature gives a measure of the kinectic energy

Nov 1, 2004 · Replies 9 · Nov 2, 2004

Replies: 9

Views: 2K

Undergrad Another Thermodynamics Question

Oct 31, 2004 · Replies 3 · Nov 2, 2004

Replies: 3

Views: 4K

Undergrad Equilibrium constant always valid?

Nov 1, 2004 · Replies 5 · Nov 2, 2004

Replies: 5

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Undergrad Carnot Cycle: Understanding Why Real Engines Fall Short

Nov 1, 2004 · Replies 4 · Nov 2, 2004

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Graduate Creation and Destruction of Entropy

Oct 17, 2004 · Replies 8 · Nov 1, 2004

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Undergrad Question about energy, can't create/destroy etc

Oct 30, 2004 · Replies 11 · Nov 1, 2004

Replies: 11

Views: 6K

Undergrad Heat Due to Friction Between Brake Pads

Oct 30, 2004 · Replies 1 · Oct 31, 2004

Replies: 1

Views: 4K

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