Re: Heat through an adiabatic wall?

[Bob Sciamanda <trebor@VELOCITY.NET>]

Who teaches such a course?
Functional paddle wheels (and much of reality) would not exist in this
reversible world!
( As far as I can discern [not very!] the described dilemma is one of
semantics - in particular, the words "heat" and "adiabatic wall").

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

----- Original Message -----
From: Ludwik Kowalski <KowalskiL@MAIL.MONTCLAIR.EDU>
To: <PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu>
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2000 2:45 PM
Subject: Re: Heat through an adiabatic wall?


> My impression was that Tim's initial question referred to a course
> in which irreversible processes are ignored. That is how I was
> introduced to thermodynamics. Is it fair to say that in such a
> course the described dilemma can be viewed as a paradox?
>  . . .