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Yes, the word heat has two conflicting meanings in many introductoryphysics
textbooks. In thermodynamics it refers to that part of a thermal energychange
which is due to a difference of temperatures, dT, between the inside and.............................................................................
outside of a system. It is a path-dependent quantity, usually expressed in
joules. In elementary physics on the other hand, heat is the name given to
the quantity Q when the formula Q=c*m*dT is used to perform simple
calorimetric calculations. . . . .