Re: CONSERVATION OF ENERGY

[brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>]

At 11:08 7/16/97 EDT, Ludwik wrote:

> I wish I could ask Feynman who wrote (vol I, p 4-33):
>
> "Let us begin by stating the first law, the conservation of energy: if one
> has a system and puts heat into it, and does work on it, then its energy
> is increased by the heat put in and the work done. We can write this as
> follows: The heat Q put into the system, plus the work done on the system,
> is the increase in the energy U of the system; the latter energy is
> sometimes called the internal energy."
I can offer only this:
when Feynman says 'some people call this...'
he acknowledges usage. In discussing the capacitance of a single sphere
elsewhere in the Lectures, he uses a similar linguistic nuance but in that
case makes it more clear that this is not his prefered description.

Regards
brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>
Altus OK