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Re: Thermal Energy

. . .
Rotational KE is somewhat unique in the following sense: Barring
external interactions the angular momentum of the system will be
conserved and it will not be possible to thermalize the rotational
energy. . . . John Mallinckrodt

This is a very insightful observation which had not ocurred to me. It
means that a system must interact with the external universe in order to
thermalize its own "Spin" energy. An uncontained fluid set to spinning in
space would then continue this organized spin motion until it engaged an
external object in an interaction.

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