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>There ARE those scurrilous characters who say "This is Jim-Speak, whereby
>heating provided on B by A is described as negative work done on A by B."
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>What could be more straight-forward?
>Still, no right thinking physicist will endorse this translation.... or
>will she?
Well, Brian, you may have added a complication: Heating by B on A is
usually accomplished by the hotter subsystem doing work on the cooler
subsystem but in the present case the cooler system does work on the hotter
one -- the cooling condensing molecules loose energy and do work on the
hotter molecules so we might well talk about negative work done by the
impinging system by the condensing system. /snip/
Jim Green