Re: heat is a form of energy

[David Bowman <dbowman@TIGER.GEORGETOWNCOLLEGE.EDU>]

Regarding:

> > Some
> > teachers even try to smooth this over by introducing the "flow
> > of entropy" as a helpful concept!
>
> This would not help any understanding of entropy.  Fortunately, I have
> not encountered this teaching technique.

When I wrote this last comment I meant that I had not encountered
teachers or professors making an appeal to the flow of entropy to help
explain the concept of entropy.  I did not mean to suggest or imply that
textbooks didn't ever use the concept of entropy flow.  However, thermo
books with an engineering slant tend to use entropy flow a lot more than
physics-oriented stat mech books though (in spite of Schroeder's cartoon).

David Bowman
dbowman@georgetowncollege.edu