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Carl Mungan wrote: "Either heat is energy IN A SYSTEM or
it is energy IN TRANSIT from one system to another.
To respect traditional terminology the Q of calorimetry should
be called heat
Please suggest a better pair of short words for my draft.
Personally, I prefer call F*ds work and reserve the word
pseudowork for the concept to be introduced later. [Those
who call F*ds pseudowork are confusing students. This
kind of confusion is totally unnecessary.]
It seems obvious to me that heat and
work are quite distinct.