Re: HEAT1=HEAT2 ?

[Leigh Palmer <palmer@sfu.ca>]

> When I was learning physics heat was first introduced as a "cause for a
> change in temperature".

Then can I not heat an ice cube at its freezing point, Ludwik? Heat *may
be* a cause for changing temperature, but so may work. Conversely, one
mey heat a system and not change its temperature at all, hence the ice
cube example. What you learned is utterly valueless.

> It was presented as something inside a body that can be gained and lost.

....and at the time you learned it that was known to be false. Many of
us have managed to get along without caloric (which is exactly what you
describe here) for a very long time.

Leigh