Re: Why do we care about heat?

[Bob Sciamanda <trebor@VELOCITY.NET>]

The point of this experiment was that mechanical work can, through
dissipative processes, produce the same effect (eg., temperature increase)
as would the influx of a proportionate amount of heat.

Bob

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

----- Original Message -----
From: John S. Denker <jsd@MONMOUTH.COM>
To: <PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu>
Sent: Sunday, October 31, 1999 5:41 PM
Subject: Re: Why do we care about heat?


> >
> The conventional name of that experiment is "the mechanical equivalent
of
> heat".  The notion that the result of this experiment was "not heat" is
> beyond unorthodox.  It's beyond unconventional.  It's bizarre.
> . . .