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A Experimental Studies of the Internal Energy of a real fluid
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I Experimenting with a vacuum pump
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I Questions about a System in Equilibrium
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I Is it cooler hanging ice packs from a fishnet bag or in a thermal lunch-bag?
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I Difference between the thermal and mechanical efficiency
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B Heat Pumps And The Peltier Effect
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Does a full fridge cost less money to run than an empty fridge?
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A Definition of entropy for indistinguishable and distinguishable particles
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I Vapour pressure/solubility of small and big grain surfaces and corners
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A Cavitation: radius of a bubble for compressible flow
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I What is the Role of Convective Heat Transfer in Cavitation of Cryogenic Fluids?
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B Question about Thermophotovoltaics (thermal heat engine)
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I Microstates of an atom in an energy state
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I Reading course in statistical physics
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I Understanding the Clausius-Clapeyron Formula: V_{l} and V_{g}
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A Derivation of Statistical Mechanics
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I How is target superheat table generated for R22 HVAC system
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B Simple liquid/gas law question and liquid transfer query
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I Magnetic fields are exceptions to the second law of thermodynamics?
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A How Does Quantum Theory Provide a Measure for Microstates in Phase Space?
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I Understand the Thermodynamic Identity: Is This Correct?
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Question about the rules of thermodynamics
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I Is this water pumping device using the Rankine cycle?
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B Exploring Entropy with Svante Arrhenius' Salt Water Experiment
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I How Does the Flow Equation Apply in Higher Dimensional Phase Spaces?
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B Sadi Carnot's Doubts: Exploring Universal Physics
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I Why Should the Total Number of States Equal the Volume of an Octant?
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I Interpreting Thermal Power in Cylinder with Source & Sink
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I Number of ways to distribute particles
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I Kappa factor in heat equation and heat Flux
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I Compressible choked gas flow through an orifice -- Excel formula
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I Equilibrium equation if the barrier allows particle exchange
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Help understanding "Heat capacity"
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A Non-isothermal conditions in liquid-gas nitrogen homogeneous mixture
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Enthelpy and Isentropic compression/expansion
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I Pool Solar Heating - Help orienting the roof-top solar collector please
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I Probability in a small interval is ##P. dx##
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A What Are the Mathematical Expressions of the First Law of Thermodynamics?
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I Relating Entropy and the 2nd law
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I Exploring Continuous Approximation of 1D Random Walk Steps (Reif, pg 14)
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I A System is the transfer of energy between two mediums?
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I Calculating Cooling Effect in Gas Cylinder Expansion
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A Calculating the heat loss of an open water tank (aquarium)
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A Vacuum Flask Thermodynamic Equation
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I Standard measure of distance from equilibrium for all systems
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B Infrared Detectors & The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics
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I Book suggestions for classical thermodynamics
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B Thermodynamics of Resistive Heating at Low Power
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I Elementary Ideas About Entropy -- Is this textbook example correct?
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B How Does Ambient Temperature Affect Aquarium Water Temperature?
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I Modeling the concentration of gas constituents in a Force Field
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I The Equilibrium Macrostate: Reif's Statistical Physics
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B HFC-134a Refrigerant & 2nd Law of Thermodynamics
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I Probability in statistical mechanics
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Why does the entropy of a closed system remain constant in a reversible process?
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Coping mechanisms for thermodynamics?
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I Exploring Oscillating Electric Fields for Dipolar Molecules
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I Ideal working gas for a Stirling engine
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I Thermodynamic functions and state variables
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I Expansion or Compression Work by Gas ##=\int{P_{ext}dV}##
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I Understanding Wrev > Wirrev in Thermodynamics
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I Making a heat shield for my car's exhaust
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I About Reversible vs Irreversible Gas Compression and Expansion Work
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I Entropy change due to heat transfer between sources
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Heat and Entropy Increase Confusion
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I Passive radiative cooling of surfaces below ambient air temperature
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Show that entropy is a state function
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I Is Entropy the inexorable conversion of potential to kinetic energy?
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I Is GHG Theory/GW in conflict with Kinetic Theory of Gases?
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I Maxwell’s Relations and Differentiating With Respect to ##N_i##
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I How does the cooling effect of this "white-est paint" work?
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I Estimating a thermal equilibrium on a custom made fridge
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I Change of Variables in Thermodynamics
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A Rate and function to fill a theoretical vacuum
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I Is the Equation h = u + (0.185)Pv Accurate for Converting Energy Units?
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Is there a conflict between CPT symmetry and the 2nd law of thermodynamics?
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Mathematical equation for the deviation from ideality of real gases
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I Why is Entropy defined as a fraction of heat over temperature?
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B Irreversible Process to Move Gas from State 1 to State 2
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I Looking for materials about ensemble average
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A Volume constraint in micro-canonical derivation of statistical physics
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Heat bath and canonical ensembles
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I Strange feature of BE, FD and Boltzmann distributions
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I Compressing gas with piston: reasons for temperature increase?
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I Entropy after removing partition separating gas into two compartments
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I How Does Heat Transfer Impact Our Sensation of Temperature?
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A Can Raoult's Law Determine Boiling Points of Fuel Oil?
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I Thermodynamic Pros/Cons coating light metal tanks with rubber
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Calculating temp rise caused by electric arc in an enclosed space
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B Will entropy eventually destroy even an open and efficient system?
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B Is Mean Temp in 2 phase Heat Exchangers Higher Than Logarithmic Mean?
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A Equilibrium, entropy, probability - Release of constraints
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I Heat capacity for a real gas using the ideal gas (zero pressure) equation
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B Lorenz COP of a heat pump and the temperatures of the hot/cold reservoirs
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B Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution under the influence of a gravitational field
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I Volume of water consumed by vacuum
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B Can a Heat Pump and Stirling Engine Create a Perpetual Energy Cycle?
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I Entropy and Heat Capacity Relation
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A Solve Asymmetric Piston Problem for SL
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I Cycle of an air conditioner and power consumed
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