Re: [Phys-L] heat content

[Bernard Cleyet <bernard@cleyet.org>]

On 2014, Feb 12, , at 15:57, John Denker <jsd@av8n.com> wrote:

> > -- All of this is a sideshow, because it doesn't cover the
> > general case.  There remain lots of situations where we
> > simply must divide the system in to parcels, into subsystems,
> > and there is no reason to expect that there will be anything
> > resembling a "thermal" / "non-thermal" distinction.  Examples
> > include:
> >   NMR spin/lattice distinction
> >   Styrofoam box containing a hot potato and a cold potato
> >   Brownian motion
> >   etc. etc. etc.
>
> Add to that list fluid dynamics, including hydro-dynamics and
> even -statics.  You have to divide the fluid into parcels or
> you'll never get anywhere.


I suppose the external E of the oceans is not isolated from the internal, as the CofM will change;  interacting w/ the moon, etc., etc. etc.   

W/ GPS now detectable, but not the T of the oceans.

bc ????