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To: HPilot who wrote (18955)12/26/2007 10:14:10 PM
From: neolib  Read Replies (2) of 36921
 
30 years ago, Heat Transfer might well have been the name of a course taught to engineers. Today I suspect it will be called something like Engineering Thermodynamics. In physics they tend to teach Statistical Thermodynamics (actually, it is often called Statistical Mechanics) because it is a more tidy theoretical method of understanding what heat, temperature, & entropy are.

In order to really understand why Statistical Mechanics has a theoretical basis, do you know what the definition of temperature is for a gas? That is the easy part. Statistical Mechanics applied to liquids and solids gets a lot more complicated.
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