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Re: ENERGY WITH Q

At 07:00 PM 10/22/01 -0400, Ludwik Kowalski wrote:
In the first physics course
this is usually generalized by saying that the amount of
thermal energy present in any object is directly
proportional to its absolute temperature.

Hmmmm. I must have cut class on the day that generalization was made.

Try drawing a graph of the thermal energy content of a gram of water at 1
Atm pressure, as a function of temperature from -10C to 110C and see if the
graph is a straight line.
http://www.monmouth.com/~jsd/physics/thermo-laws.htm#sec-melting