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To: Jack Colton who wrote (5726)	6/3/1998 9:38:00 PM
From: Jack Colton	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 62549

I know.... This has been around a lot. But maybe someone has not read it... As an Alumni of the University of Oklahoma School of Chemical Engineering, I present to you one of Dr. Shcambaugh's Final test questions for May of 1997. Dr. Schambaugh is known for asking questions such as this on his final exams. The year I finished my under grad,his one and only final exam question was, "Why do air planes fly?" May 1997, Momentum, Heat and Mass transfer II Final Exam Question: * Is hell exothermic or endothermic? Support your answer with a proof.* Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law or some variant. One student, however, wrote the following: First, we postulate that if souls exist, then they must have some mass. If they do, then a mole of souls can also have a mass. So, at what rate are souls moving into hell and at what rate are souls leaving? I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for souls entering hell, lets look at the different religions that exist in the world today. Some of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to hell. Since there are more than one of these religions and people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all people and all souls go to hell. With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in hell to increase exponentially. Now, we look at the rate of change in volume in hell. Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in hell to stay the same, the ratio of the mass of souls and volume needs to stay constant. #1 So, if hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter hell, then the temperature and pressure in hell will increase until all hell breaks loose. #2 Of course, if hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until hell freezes over. So which is it? If we accept the postulate given to me by Theresa Banyan during Freshman year, "that it will be a cold night in hell before I sleep with you" and take into account the fact that I still have NOT succeeded in having sexual relations with her, then #2 cannot be true... Thus, hell is exothermic. The student Tim Graham got the only A.