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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: HPilot who wrote (19121)	12/28/2007 11:32:17 AM
From: neolib	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36921

Go look at any textbook of Thermodynamics. The first chapter or two will deal with what you call heat transfer, i.e. simple thermal properties of gases, liquids, and solids. And yes, they will teach you how to compute heat flow in all of them, and between them. Then they will teach you about the heat properties (including heat transfer) of phase changes in materials. And all of this is done without work. You have to understand heat flow in Thermodynamics before you can do heat flow with work. All interesting thermodynamic cycles have heat flow or heat transfer as you call it. Some of them produce mechanical work as well, such as the engine cycles. And 100% of these equations come from the Laws of Thermodynamics. The mathematical analysis techniques come form all sorts of places. Stop confusing the two.