Re: Which Creates More Heat?

Posted by I Don't Know on June 11, 2006 at 10:03:52 from (66.226.63.116):

In Reply to: Which Creates More Heat? posted by in-too-deep on June 11, 2006 at 09:20:28:

May not answer your question, but it has to do with heat.

The following is an actual question given on a University of Washington
Chemistry mid term. The answer by one student was "so profound" that the
professor shared
it with colleagues, via the Internet, which is, of course, why we now have
the pleasure of enjoying it as well.

Bonus Question: Is He77 exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs
heat)? Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's
Law, (gas cools
off when it expands and heats). One student wrote the following answer:

First, we need to know how the mass of He77 is changing in time. So we need
to know the rate that souls are moving into Hell and the rate they are
leaving. I think
that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to He77, it will not leave.
Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for how many souls are entering He77,
let's 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 He77.
Since there are more
than one of these religions and since people do not belong to more than one
religion, we can project that all souls go to He77. With birth and death
rates as they are,
we can expect the number of souls in He77 to increase exponentially.

Now, we look at the rate of change of the volume in He77 because Boyle's
Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in He77 to stay
the same, the
volume of He77 has to expand proportionately as souls are added. This gives
two possibilities:

1. If He77 is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter
He77, then the temperature and pressure in He77 will increase until all
He77 breaks loose.
2. If He77 is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in
He77, then the temperature and pressure will drop until He77 freezes over.

So which is it? If we accept the postulate given to me by Teresa during my
Freshman year that: "it will be a cold day in He77 before I sleep with
you," and take into
account the fact that I still have not succeeded in having $exual relations
with her, then #2 cannot be true, and thus I am sure that He77 is
exothermic and will not
freeze.

The student received the only "A" given.

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