Re: HEAT1=HEAT2 ?

[Jim Green <JMGreen@sisna.com>]

Rick, if you can tell me clearly and definitively what the terms below mean
to *you* *without* using the word "heat", then I will adopt your usage and
publicly recant.  Pick one or two for a start.  Do it off list if you like.  

Jim Green
JMGreen@sisna.com

  



At 08:17 AM 8/28/97 -0500, you wrote:
> Heat, heat capacity, heat engine, heat of combustion, heat of vaporization,
> heat of fusion, heat pump, heat exchanger, heat transfer, latent heat,
> mechanical equivalent of heat, heat of dissociation, heat death of the
> Universe, heat as produced by friction, heat as produced by resistance,
> heat reservoir, heat sink, heat radiation, heat of transformation, heat
> conduction, etc.  If you can deal with all of these 'physics' uses of the
> word heat without invoking heat as a label for a form of energy then
> 'You're a better man than I am Gunga Din.'
>
> Rick
>
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> > From: LUDWIK KOWALSKI <kowalskil@alpha.montclair.edu>
> > To: phys-l@atlantis.cc.uwf.edu
> > Subject: Re: HEAT1=HEAT2 ?
> > Date: Wednesday, August 27, 1997 10:02 PM
> >
> > No suggestion for renaming dE was made, I referred to it as a change in.
> > internal energy (dE=Q+W). Only Q should be renamed. I wish more people
> > expressed their opinion.      Ludwik Kowalski.