Re: Vermin polluting this board

Professor Peffers pronounces in part:
<snip>
And now, may I have the next slide please? ...carried away there.
[This always reminds me of Flanders & Swann's First and Second Law of
Thermodynamics - a physics teacher once played both to our class.]

"Flanders and Swann's First and Second Law of Thermodynamics" (from "At
the Drop of Another Hat")

[M. Flanders] "One of the great problems in the world today is
undoubtedly this problem of not being able to talk to scientists,
because we don't understand science. They can't talk to us because they
don't understand anything else, poor dears. This problem, I think it
was C.P. Snow first raised it - Sir Charles Snow in private life - in
his books Science and Government and so on. Mind you, I haven't read
it. I'm waiting for the play to come.

"He says, quite rightly, he says it's no good going up to a scientist
and saying to him as you would to anybody else, you know, 'good
morning, how are you, lend me a quid' and so on, I mean he'll just
glare at you or make a rude retort or something. No, you have to speak
to him in language that he'll understand. I mean you go up to him and
say something like, 'Ah, H2SO4, Professor! Don't synthesize anything I
wouldn't synthesize. Oh, and the reciprocal of pi to your good wife'.
Now, this he will understand.

"Snow says that nobody can consider themselves educated who doesn't
know at least the basic language of science. I mean things like Sir
Edward Boyle's Law, for example - the greater the external pressure,
the greater the volume of hot air. The simple . . . or . . . the Second
Law of Thermodynamics, this is very important. I wasn't so much shocked
the other day to discover that my partner not only doesn't know the
Second Law, he doesn't even know the First Law of Thermodynamics!

"Going back to first principles, very briefly: thermodynamics, of
course, is derived from two Greek words, thermos, meaning hot - if you
don't drop it - and dynamics, meaning dynamic, work; and thermodynamics
is simply the science of heat and work, and the relationships between
the two as laid down in the Laws of Thermodynamics, which may be
expressed in the following simple terms - after me, Donald.

[MF] "The First law of Thermodynamics.
[F] Heat is work and work is heat
[D Swann]Heat is work and work is heat
[F(spoken)] Very Good.
[S] The Second law of thermodynamics.
[F] Heat cannot of itself pass from one body to a hotter body
[S] Heat cannot of itself pass from one body to a hotter body
[F] Heat won't pass from a cooler to a hotter
[S] Heat won't pass from a cooler to a hotter
[F] You can try it if you like but you'd far better not-a
[S] You can try it if you like but you'd far better not-a
[F] 'Cos the cold in the cooler will get hotter as a rule-a
[S] 'Cos the cold in the cooler will get hotter as a rule-a
[F] 'Cos the hotter body's heat will pass to the cooler
[S] 'Cos the hotter body's heat will pass to the cooler
[S] Heat is work and work is heat and work is heat and heat is work
[F] Heat will pass by conduction and
[S] Heat will pass by conduction and
[F] Heat will pass by convection and
[S] Heat will pass by convection and
[F] Heat will pass by radiation
[S] Heat will pass by radiation
[S] And that's a physical law

[F] Heat is work and work's a curse
[F] And all the heat in the universe
[F] Is gonna cool down,
[F] 'Cos it can't increase
[F] Then there'll be no more work
[F] And there'll be perfect peace
[S (spoken)] Really?
[F (spoken)] Yeah, that's entropy, Man.
[F (spoken)] And all because of the second law of thermodynamics which
lays down:
[F] That you can't pass heat from a cooler to a hotter
[F] Try it if you like but you'd far better not-a
[S] 'Cos the cold in the cooler will get hotter as a rule-a
[S] 'Cos the hotter body's heat will pass to the cooler

[S] Oh, you can't pass heat from a cooler to a hotter
[S] Try it if you like but you'll only look a fool-a
[S] 'Cos the cold in the cooler will get hotter as a rule-a
[S] And that's a physical law
[F(spoken)] Oh, I'm hot
[S] That's because you've been working!
[F(spoken)] Oh, Beatles, nothing!
{together] That's the first and second laws of thermodynamics!

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