Re: Why do we care about heat?

[Bob Sciamanda <trebor@VELOCITY.NET>]

Permit me to talk to myself, yet again, by suggesting examples:
If the application/problem specifies that a spring gets compressed, then
you must compress that spring; if it is specified that a gas takes in
energy at constant volume, then you dare not compress it, etc.

Bob

Bob Sciamanda (W3NLV)
Physics, Edinboro Univ of PA (em)
trebor@velocity.net
http://www.velocity.net/~trebor

----- Original Message -----
From: Bob Sciamanda <trebor@VELOCITY.NET>
To: <PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu>
Sent: Monday, November 01, 1999 12:43 PM
Subject: Re: Why do we care about heat?


> I should clarify:  I do not wish to imply that specifying the change in
> energy, E, will alone specify the final state (given the initial state).
> I am implying that any real/gedanken application will implicitly or
> explicitly specify the final state and that the flexibility in
> partitioning dW and dQ will be constrained by those specifications.