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At 11:48 PM 10/17/01 -0500, Tom Wayburn seemed to endorse thestatement:
the work?"Actually Q is _any_ work (or the fraction of the total work)
which changes the entropy and W is work which does not",
Huh? I thought W stood for work. How can we define W as a subset of
work
At 11:51 PM 10/17/01 -0500, Tom Wayburn wrote:
Work is used to define entropy,
That may be an _example_ of entropy, but it is not satisfactory as a
definition of entropy. In particular,
1) Entropy remains well-behaved when the temperature is undefined,
unspecified, or zero. An alleged "definition" of entropy in terms of
would have problems handling this case.dissipative
2) Any such "definition" would have problems describing any
process, such as cannon-boring. For details seeDear John,
http://www.monmouth.com/~jsd/physics/thermo-laws.htm