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- From: enw2049@zeus.tamu.edu (WALKE, ERIK N)
- Subject: Re: Thermodynamics (was Re: Sartre's 3 laws)
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- In article <1992Sep5.012246.7932@news.iastate.edu>, glitto@iastate.edu
- (Scott M Klabacha) writes...
-
- >>enw2049@zeus.tamu.edu (WALKE, ERIK N) writes:
- >>
- >> At the end of our first semester p-chem course, after many weeks of
- >> thermodynamics, phase diagrams, enthalpy & entropy, our prof
- >> gave us this summary of the 3 Laws:
- >>
- >>
- >> First Law of Thermodynamics: You can't win.
- >>
- >> Second Law of " You can break even only if you
- >> work at absoloute zero.
- >>
- >> Third Law of " You can't work at absolute zero.
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- I learned this one as "You can never get
- all the way to absolute zero."
- >
- >And this was in a first year chemistry course, halfway across the country
- >(University of Chicago).
- >
- >***gLITTOfERN*** glitto@iastate.edu
- >
- Dear Glitto: Halfway across the country from where? 'Twas Hugo
- Franzen that told me those Three Laws. ;-)
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