Re: Questionable interpretation of physics

[Carl Mungan <mungan@USNA.EDU>]

JSD wrote:
> In any case, temperature is not energy per entropy.

I think what was meant was the partial derivative of energy w.r.t.
entropy while holding the system configuration (such as the volume)
constant.

> You can't write TdS as dQ

True in general. But it's okay for the special case of a reversible
process. Carl

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