Re: Some Thoughts

[Leigh Palmer <palmer@sfu.ca>]

Bob Sciamanda caught a Big one:

> Leigh Palmer wrote:
> > . . .
> >  All reversible processes which produce the same change in
> > state require the same heat Q, so specification of a particular
> > process is not required. Thus sayeth the second law of thermodynamics.
> > . . .
> >
> > Leigh
>
> If this were so, a reversible engine cycle involving a non-zero heat
> transfer
> would be forbidden!  I think you meant "the same integral of dQ/T..."
> (Just one snippet of this thread which I caught while travelling.)

Quite so. I knew I'd been in this discussion too long; it's addled
my brain. The invariant quantity is indeed as Bob says.

Leigh