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Re: first law of thermo



Your last statement on page one implies that the previous discussion has
DERIVED the first law of thermodynamics from purely mechanical
considerations (Newton's laws)! The conservation of energy hypothesis was
a leap of faith and a hard sell.

"To me it seems as if many of those who are discussing this question of
the conservation of [energy] are plunging into the fog of
mysticism." -Written in 1858 by William Barton Rogers, founder of MIT.


Bob Sciamanda (W3NLV)
Physics, Edinboro Univ of PA (em)
trebor@velocity.net
http://www.velocity.net/~trebor
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carl E. Mungan" <mungan@USNA.EDU>
To: <PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 3:42 PM
Subject: first law of thermo


| With considerable trepidation and without any intention of re-opening
| a can of worms, I have put on the web a brief handout bridging the
| work-energy theorem and the first law of therm:
|
| http://physics.usna.edu/physics/faculty/mungan/Scholarship/FirstLaw.pdf
| . . .


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