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Graduate Meaning of thermodynamic probability
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High School Temperature inside an enclosed space
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Undergrad Using Henry's law to calculate ammonia concentration?
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High School Combining uncertainties (error propagation)
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Graduate Brewster's angle, dipole radiation and refraction
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Graduate Low-Temp Liquid Helium System: Evaporation Heat & Temperature
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Graduate 1st Law of thermodynamics : moving reference frame
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Graduate Irradition to base of cylindric gray gas volume
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Graduate Can solar heating of hot cathodes generate useful power?
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Graduate Temperature and level temperatures
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Graduate Is Elasticity Possible in Collisions at a Microscopic Level?
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Graduate Contribution of surface heat to atmospheric warming
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Undergrad Irreversible cycles, Carnot's Principle and volume-pressure diagrams
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Undergrad Does the Euler method give a better insight into adiabatic processess?
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Undergrad Droplets on a solid / liquid surface (engineering)
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Graduate Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics: An intermediate level course
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Undergrad Help finding thermal insulation physics paper
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Graduate Does radiation pressure depend on the wave phase?
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High School Kelvin - not the basic, but the derived unit of measurement?
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Undergrad Solving Adiabatic Process for Two Compartments
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Graduate What is the Entropy at ZERO Degrees Kelvin?
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Graduate Confused about use of external vs internal pressure in thermodynamics
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Undergrad Can a black material reflect light when heated to incandescence?
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Undergrad Ignoring the acceleration of a piston in thermodynamics
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High School Irreversible expansion of gas against gas
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Graduate Relation between the arrow of time and entropy
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Undergrad What are the real-world applications of convection?
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Graduate Temperatures of the hot source and cold sink in a heat engine
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Graduate Use of the Stefan Boltzmann Law in a Non Equilibrium system?
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Graduate How to calculate entropy from positions and velocities of gas molcules
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High School How Engineering physics impact on technology?
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Graduate Calculating the "mean values" in the thermodynamic limit
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Graduate Black Body Radiation -- why is it not at discrete wavelengths?
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Graduate Does classical statistical physics predict newer things vs. thermodynamics?
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Undergrad Power delivered/Internal work done by a car's engine
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Graduate Can Macroscopically Distinguishable Objects Have the Same Entropy?
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Graduate Equipartition of energy in the modes of a resonant cavity
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Undergrad Thermal inertia vs effusivity, what is the difference?
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Graduate Is Heat Capacity Derivable for Non-Ideal Liquid Mixtures?
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High School Converting 10 PSI to Electrical Energy
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Graduate Temperature and non-equilbrium thermodynamics
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Graduate Probability of a fluctuation/entropy decrease
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Undergrad Do two boxes expand equally with temperature if one has a Hole?
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High School Temperature: Definition & Atomic Level Effects
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Graduate Thermodynamic equilibrium with fixed energy/entropy
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High School Newton's first law and a body on an infinite and frictionless road
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Graduate Historic experimental evidence of Kirchhoff's radiation law
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High School Why do we need different temperature scales?
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Undergrad Question about Newton's Third Law and and the Force between 2 objects
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Graduate Thermal Imaging of people and background temperature
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Undergrad What does the 2.3 constant in e^Q/2.3RT come from?
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Undergrad Why is it more efficient to get thermal energy from a higher temperature source?
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Undergrad Can a Gold Leaf Electroscope Detect Alpha Particles?
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Graduate Question about the first law of thermodynamics
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Undergrad Question about thermodynamics first law
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Undergrad Heat Transfer in Metal Tank: Time to Drop from θ2 to θ1
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Graduate The second law of the thermodynamics and philosophy
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Undergrad Heating of elements with laser light
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High School Can anyone explain Pascal's principles?
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Undergrad How is absorbed thermal energy invested during a phase change?
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Undergrad Airflow direction -- Improving the cooling of my computer
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Undergrad Condensation as humidity control
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Graduate Fuel/oxidizer preheating to a high temperature
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Graduate Ambipolar diffusion and sheaths in a bounded plasma
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Undergrad Isentropic Process, General Results for dU and dH
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High School Hypersonic aircraft shock layer color
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High School How does this osmotic system reach equilibrium?
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Undergrad Why is hysteresis loss proportional to area hysteresis loop ?
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Graduate Black body radiation, Planck's law, derivation
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Graduate Entropy in a non inertial reference frame
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Undergrad Direct polar radiation increases as....
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High School Does the Density of a Portable Cloud in a Bottle Depend on Pressure?
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Graduate Thermodynamics: Gas Expansion with Piston Friction
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Graduate Entropy increase of solid vs liquid
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Graduate Why do we need to supply energy to a biological body to keep entropy decreasing?
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Graduate Entropic Force - Heat Transfer Mechanism
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Graduate Are nuclear or chemical energy release thermodynamic processes?
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High School Why does heat flow from hot to cold?
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Graduate Heat Absorbed by Gas: An Expert Explanation
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Undergrad Does the postulate of equal a priori probability apply only to equilibrium?
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Undergrad What happens in the molecular structure of a liquid (imcompressible)?
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Graduate Carnot's Argument (Cryptic passage in Feynman Lectures v. 1)
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Graduate Definition of an engine operating between two temperatures
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Undergrad Condensation inside the walls of a bottle
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Graduate What is the derivation of the exact Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution?
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Undergrad Precision Temperature Measurement
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Graduate How Does Proton Decay Relate to the Law of Entropy?
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Undergrad Transporting an Ice Cream Tub in hot weather
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Undergrad Liquid Air and Compressed Air Density
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Graduate Understanding the Kelvin Equation
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Graduate What's special about the Carnot Cycle?
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Graduate Discrepancy in my calculations
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Undergrad Can we consider this system as an Einstein model of a Solid?
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Graduate Question about the 0th law of thermodynamics
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Graduate Calculating Initial Potential and Heat of Metal Spheres Collision
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Graduate Light Reflection Momentum - P=2Icos^2(A)/C
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Graduate Is a single atom hot? Will it emit radiation?
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Graduate How can I mix gases in a chamber measuring only pressure and temperature
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High School Atmospheric Burn-up During Re-Entry
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Graduate Atmospheric CO2 absorption - actual quantification?
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