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What is the equation to calculate thermal energy due to friction?
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Confusion regarding Kelvin-Plank statement of Second Law
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Specific Heat in Absolute vs Relative Units
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Regarding resistivity in heating coils
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Why is the enthelpy of a phase transition different from 0?
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How to create heat using a falling object?
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Two isolated metal cubes: Negative ΔS? Thermodynamics
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Thermal and Kinetic Energy Conversion
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Entropy and Enthelpy for adiabatic process
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Entropy in Information theory vs thermodynamic
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How is Efficiency of Heat Exchangers (HRV) determined
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Deriving the formula for the change in entropy
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Work definition in thermodynamics
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What consequences can the heat generated by our body have?
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Can a gas decrease its Temp. without doing Work nor exchanging Heat?
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Understanding Heat & Work: An Engine Explained
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Why is entropy zero in an adiabatic process?
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Can anyone explain the mechanism of molecular vibration and heat transfer?
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If heat is motion, why do fans cool you off?
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Entropy of canonical ensemble - invariant wrt energy shift?
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Thermal: Entropy of Ideal Gas (Sackur-Tetrode equation)
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Two Objects In Thermal Equilibrium
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Balckbodies and black body radiation - please enlighten me
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Why is heat measured in joules?
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Newton's Third Law and Linear Momentum Conservation
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Explanation of entropy for a beginner please
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Heat transfer through an insulated steel wall due to hydrocarbon fire
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What is the relationship between wet bulb temperature and rain temperature?
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Does High Energy Radiation Sting?
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The First Law of Thermodynamics and Mechanical Work
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2D heat conduction of layered composite model
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Are the Laws of Thermodynamics Really laws?
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'Relation between the psychological and thermodynamic arrows of time'
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Calculating Thermal Speed VTh with R Constant
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Law of expansion for super heated steam
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Exploring the Boiling Point of Refrigerants in Freezers and Refrigerators
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Enthelpy of water at triple point and freezing point
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Water in an open container immersed in a heat bath at BP
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What is the real second law of thermodynamics?
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Thermodynamics: Why must a reversible process be infenetesimally done?
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Heating a pure substance at it's triple point
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Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II engine power?
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Fully Aquatic Engine prototype problem
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Young's modulus and temperature
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Van der waals equation and molar specific heat
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Why is a condenser necessary in a thermodynamic Rankine cycle?
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Do Fundamental Particles Experience Heat?
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Power generation through endothermic heat absorption.
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Is pressure constant when you heat a balloon?
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What would be the best method for heating copper tubing via nichrome?
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Very Basic Thermodynamics, H20, and Jet Engines
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Which gas has the highest flame temperature - hydrogen or carbon
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Using dark tiles to heat a pool via absorption of solar energy
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Does Heat Really Weaken Intermolecular Forces During Melting and Boiling?
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Rocket engine gimballing - torque and angular acceleration question
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Change in Entropy for Irreversible Processes
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What is the difference between internal energy and enthelpy?
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Where does thermal radiation come from?
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This thermodynamic quantity equals what?
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How to calculate thermal exchange rate of water inside Pex piping.
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Isothermal & adiabatic processes
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Homeopathy and the second law of thermodynamics
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Boyle's law and constant temperature
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How can I efficiently heat a moving organic object for thermographic imaging?
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Newton's Third Law and the Conservation of Momentum
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Why adiabatic process is required in heat engine?
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Reversed Carnot Cycle: Explained for Refrigerators
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Heat transfer from gas to gas?
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Heat insulators and conductors
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How Does Thermal Conductivity Influence Temperature at Material Interfaces?
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Equilibirum concentration in thermodynamics
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Newton's First Law of Motion is Wrong (Proven Wrong in This Thread)
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Heat in the molecular/atomic scale
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Caratheodory's formulation of thermodynamics, Rejected?
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Heat, Work, and Energy: Understanding Charles Law and Internal Energy
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How to calculate of heat combuation for sulfur
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Thermodynamic PV-diagram: Why does a critical point =inflection point?
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What materials heat up under pressure and for how long?
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Why Do Systems Need to Dump Excess Entropy?
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Calculating Heat Transfer Between 3 Mediums: Copper, Ground, Water
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Entropy Generation in a Rod: Heat Transfer Considerations
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Can Humans Generate Enough Heat to Power the World?
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What is the flame temperature for burning alkali metals in oxygen
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What does mean sulfur has auto-ignition Temperature 248-266C
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Does thermal radiation involve ultraviolet x ray and jamma ray
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Is the efficiency of heat engine more in hilly areas than in plains?
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What is the Meaning of Entropy Change for a Reservoir?
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Difference between Heat Death and the Big Freeze ?
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Understanding Thermodynamic Variables: Fixing Confusion and Clarifying Relations
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Measuring thermal energy of surface contaminants
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Measuring temperature in a metal bar
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Thermodynamics without partition function
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Can anyone help with the perception of temperature difference?
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Does eating decrease the entropy of my body?
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Thermodynamics and microwaving food
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Varying thermal conductivity with length
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Heat flow through rubber sample
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What are the Three Main Types of Connections in Thermodynamics?
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