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62	If temperature is amount of kinetic energy of particles, then how can there be a cold breeze?
59	Why does the Earth cool at night time?
59	If like charges repel, why doesn't a charge break itself apart?
51	Why is water evaporated from the ocean not salty?
51	Why does snow stay after a snowfall?

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+10	How to derive entropy from density of states?
+10	What is meant by “quenched” and “annealed” averages and how they differ from each other?
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+10	Is Del (or Nabla) an operator or a vector?

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20	How exactly is the formalism of thermodynamics based on contact geometry?
19	Paradox of wavefunction collapse into an unphysical state
10	Adiabatic piston: why is Callen's argument flawed?
4	Does heat transfer happen instantanoeusly in a perfect harmonic crystal?
4	Is there any example of a real-life system which violates the “third law” of thermodynamics while remaining at equilibrium?

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