Re: heat is a form of energy

[Leigh Palmer <palmer@SFU.CA>]

At 8:28 AM -0700 9/9/99, C wrote:
> Hi all-
>        Leigh writes:
> ******************************************************************
> >        After the touching, I can feel the hotted copper block getting
> > less hotted and the cold copper block getting more hotted.  The picture
> > that leaps into my childlike mind is when I poured water from a full glass
> > into an empty one.  I could see and feel the wet in the full glass and
> > the dry in the empty one, just like the hot from the hot block and the
> > cold from the unhot block.  In other words, I could practically feel the
> > hot flowing.
>
> This would seem to associate the amount of hot with temperature alone,
> would it not?
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>        If temperature is the grown-up name for hot, then you are
> absolutely right.  I thought that temperature was something you did
> with one of them thermometer things.
>                                Regards,
>                                        Jack

I interpreted "hot" as "heat". I thought we were talking about
"heat flow". My reservation was based on the need to consider the
heat capacities of the bodies. I now take your point. I don't
like the analogy very much, but of course no analogy is perfect.

Leigh