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<0> what is heat capacity?
<1> The capacity to store heat.
<0> what is heat?
<1> Highly entropic energy
<1> Hmm... so does that mean only heat itself has zero heat capacity? Everything else has the potential to become more entropic.
<2> Hey synx
<0> :(
<3> hello
<3> anybody know much about element 126?
<0> it's him again
<3> and the island of stability?
<2> Heat, to my knowledge, is kinetic energy, meaning: motion, synx.
<2> I remember watching something on Nova about the Island of Stability in my Chem 101 cl*** in high school,
<0> what is nova?
<2> Seaborg was presented in the film, as well as one of his students that to this day is still experimenting with particle colliders in an attempt to play around with such special elements.
<2> Nova is a PBS program,
<0> what pbs?
<2> actually it may have not been Nova. But it was definitely something with "Bill Nye the Science Guy"
<2> PBS is "Public Broadcasting Station" and has some goofy children shows on television channels usually :) Seasame Street, animal shows, etc. "for education purposes"
<1> Heat isn't kinetic energy. A baseball isn't hot if it's flying through a vacuum at high speeds.
<0> kanzure: do you have a porn channel?
<2> Many, Manyfold
<0> :(
<2> synx: Heat is rather abstract, isn't it? :-/
<0> i have none
<1> It is, admittedly.
<0> pay tv?
<2> Manyfold: Yes.
<4> in Canada, all the channels are pron channels
<2> That's likely true anywhere you get cable television
<2> What better way to use such big, beautiful rods of fiberoptics?
<0> kanzure: do you have cable tv?
<4> sportsnet monday gangbang is somthing to see......
<4> oh man....that was bad...
<2> Manyfold, yes, the house I am in has cable routed into it
<1> I can think of a few creative ways to use big beautiful rods...
<0> i have only terrestrial digital tv
<0> :(
<0> my life ****s
<4> Manyfold: yep, whining will make it better
<4> thats how bill gates got where he is now....
<2> synx, heat: Heat, like work, is a measure of the amount of energy transferred from one body to another because of the temperature difference between those bodies. Heat is not energy possessed by a body.
<2> temperature: Temperature is a measure of the average kinetic energy of the particles in a sample of matter.
<2> There we go.
<5> temperature is only defined for a black body shape of radiation i think
<5> and the temperature is defined for where it peaks
<5> iirc
<4> yea.....i hate it when my coffee's temp goes undefined...expecially when it diverges :S
<5> your coffee's temperature is probably undefined most of the time
<5> hmm or at the start
<5> I think almost everything very quickly settles down to black body radiation
<5> and then you can talk about the temperature
<4> i think temp is defined differently
<4> like dS/dQ=T
<4> i think..
<4> or is that backwards...
<4> yeah its dQ/dS=T
<4> then there is a way to show its related to the average kenetic energy from there
<4> i forget how to derive that...
<0> JabberWalkie: bad to forgot
<0> :(
<4> i think that only works for a simple non-interacting gas
<4> you need the partiton function of the system to do it...
<4> so it dosn't hold with more exotic systems...
<6> If a sound travels through cold air that then abruptly changes to warm air (or perhaps the abruptness does not matter), is the sound dampened?
<4> centrx: the abruptness will matter
<4> centrx: when wave p*** a discontinuity some of it will reflect and some will transmit
<4> its true for any kind of wave
<6> Okay, so it is not a mental error that this buzzing sound outside is less heard inside than before, because it is colder outside, while the same temperature inside
<4> ummm....what?
<0> ????........??????
<6> There is a light buzzing outside. I am inside in the warmth. While inside, it used to be much more noticeably loud. Currently, it is much colder outside than it has been in the past, and the buzzing sound is much less noticeable inside.
<4> centrx: yeah maybe, could also be that transmission efficencies change with temperature, but I dont know about that
<4> or humidity..
<6> It still seems to be about the same loudness if I actually go outside, or stick my head out the window, so I discounted that
<6> it could, of course, all be in my mind
<4> maybe....your hardly in an experimentally controlled enviroment :)
<4> and your ears arnt exactly the best detection instruments
<6> this is outrageously insulting
<4> centrx: well then you are insulted to easily
<6> I should have put more exclamation marks in there
<4> centrx: my point is you ears can't achieve the range of measurement, and quantitative accuracy as say a well calibrated microphone
<6> I know
<7> Great..
<8> audio detection devices are very nonlinear
<4> microacg: as opposed to the human ear :P
<4> microacg: and you can calibrate with a known source..
<4> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PJTq2xQiQ0
<4> check it out....neat
<4> anyone have any ideas for the new POTW?
<4> ahh nm....i have one...
<4> hrrmm
<4> i expect more people to get this one :)
<9> JabberWalkie: thats just a tad too easy
<4> :P
<4> well the last one requred you solve the laplace equation in spherical coordinates...
<4> so i thought i would ballance it out
<9> if my answer is wrong then you need to restate the question.
<4> no, its stated correctly
<9> i take it back, its a very good question
<4> :)
<9> and now... spam
<9> Help me identify this algorithm for calculating pi? algorithm http://rafb.net/p/w5eaRB87.html output http://rafb.net/p/JLXcHn12.txt . To calculate N digits it iterates over a list of N small integers approx N*3 times doing mostly integer arithmetic, works for arbitrarily high N. proceeds quickly from 3.0 to almost 4.0 (closer for higher N) then slowly (accelerating) down to 3.14159. Quite odd.
<10> Title: Nopaste - pi algorithm
<4> booo....spam in #math
<9> been asking #math (on 3 networks) for days with a perl algorithm. finally converted it to C++ for what turned out to be very little clarity
<8> hm let me do the potw
<11> evenin' all
<2> hello
<8> ok I did it
<8> that didn't take so long lol
<8> does JabberWalkie want the work, or just the answer?
<6> I think it depends on how many cookies you want
<8> Jabberwalkie want a suggestion for next week's problem?
<4> microacg: sure
<8> let me write it up quicly to make sure I have it right
<3> hi
<12> can someone explain to me what the second term in the standard Drude Models means?
<12> m dv/dt = qE - mv / tau
<12> i don't get what mv / tau is
<12> does it have something to do with the electrons bumping in to other electrons?
<13> Go away ChanServ! No one likes you!
<5> DanF_DrC: mwhaha
<5> DanF_DrC: Dawkins talks about how many christians believe that the earth is < 10000 years old
<5> DanF_DrC: and teach their kids this
<14> hehe
<14> that is usually a touch subject
<14> s/touch/touchy
<5> yeah
<5> just talking about Dawkin's God Delusion
<14> but in my opinion, it ****s when people perpetuate ideas like that without any good support
<14> i have heard about that book
<14> haven't read it, but would like to
<13> And when governments give them money to build facilities to encourage these kind of ideas.
<14> separation of church and state?
<13> ..how about seperation of church and society?
<5> He looks into schools where kids are taught bible science
<14> that would be nice
<14> but i can tolerate religion
<13> .."bible science"
<5> Noah's ark etc in history lessons
<5> that sort of thing
<13> I can tolerate religion, until they start quoting mythical beings/fictional texts...
<15> I'm reading God Delusion too
<14> haha
<15> it seems to me from what bit of the first chapter I'm on (just read about 10 minutes this AM) that he's coming out against the old-white-man-on-a-cloud religion
<15> but doesn't find too much harmful in god or religion in the Einstein senses of the words
<16> So what's this three-body problem stuff all about?
<14> what about it
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