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    Undergrad What Causes Heat Transfer? Understanding the Forces Behind Thermal Equilibrium

    I mean that the average translational kinetic energy of a hot space seems to get less when next to a colder space. And this seems to happen spontaneously or without any external interference. For example, I am in my apartment and it's all warm in here. Then I open the door to the hallway where...
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    Undergrad What Causes Heat Transfer? Understanding the Forces Behind Thermal Equilibrium

    Because it just seems to happen automatically - so don't you need a force when something happens automatically?
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    Undergrad What Causes Heat Transfer? Understanding the Forces Behind Thermal Equilibrium

    What force is responsible for the phenomenon of heat transfer?
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    Graduate Gravity and the Second Law of Thermodynamics

    Can gravity be expressed in terms of the second law of thermodynamics?