Re: Why do we care about heat?

[Bob Sciamanda <trebor@VELOCITY.NET>]

I should clarify:  I do not wish to imply that specifying the change in
energy, E, will alone specify the final state (given the initial state).
I am implying that any real/gedanken application will implicitly or
explicitly specify the final state and that the flexibility in
partitioning dW and dQ will be constrained by those specifications.

Bob

Bob Sciamanda (W3NLV)
Physics, Edinboro Univ of PA (em)
trebor@velocity.net
http://www.velocity.net/~trebor

----- Original Message -----
From: Bob Sciamanda <trebor@VELOCITY.NET>
To: <PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu>
Sent: Monday, November 01, 1999 10:30 AM
Subject: Re: Why do we care about heat?


> I stand by this statement.  Heat and work are modes of energy transfer
> into the defined system.  As long as the total increment in the system
> energy is correct (dE=dQ+dW) the final system state will be correct, as
> will be all state variables, including the entropy.  Note that the
entropy
> change is calculated as dQ/T for a reversible path (not the real path
> which is here under contention).
> Bob