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Re: What Flows?



I said:

More semantics. Some call it internal energy, some call it heat. Can
anyone relate an instance where using the noun 'heat' instead of 'internal
energy' actually caused confusion among students?


Ooop! Ackk! I can't believe I said that.
U and Q obviously aren't the same thing, so one needs two different names
for them. That's not semantics.

Sorry for any hackles raised unnecessarily!!!

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--James McLean
jmclean@chem.ucsd.edu
post doc
UCSD

It's also not the case that torque really has the same units as energy.
There's the little matter of a cross product. I don't see how units in a
cross product end up the same as from a dot product or scalar
multiplication.

Dewey

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