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Re: Thermal Energy



On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Bernard Cleyet wrote:

Why make rot. KE a form of internal energy?

Because it is an invariant property of the body and not (unlike
translational kinetic energy) of the inertial reference frame
from which it is measured.

John Mallinckrodt mailto:ajm@csupomona.edu
Cal Poly Pomona http://www.csupomona.edu/~ajm