Re: W+Q deprecated

[Jim Green <JMGreen@SISNA.COM>]

> 2.) The value of the state function E may change by means of energy
> transfers between the system and objects in its environment.
> 3.) These transfers are always such that the total energy E_tot of a
> closed super-system of such systems is conserved (fixed in numerical
> value).
>
> I dare to think that no physicist will quarrel with the above.

Sorry, Bob, this physicist does quarrel:  Energy is never "transferred" --
it is _changed_ only by doing work on the system -- This is the whole point
of the First Law --- which is the same as the W/E principle.  Until we
loose the faulty notions, we will never understand thermo.


Jim Green
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