Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Heat and Work

Why when studying thermodynamics is it so important to understand the relationship between heat and work?

5 comments:

Robb8952 said...

They are closely related in many ways. When there is heat, then there is usually work being done. Like a heat engines uses heat to do work.

Kelli said...

Heat and work are related in many ways. Energy is transferred to and from a system as work and heat changing the system's internal energy. Energy turned into heat can do work as we learned through our ballon experiment. When studying thermodynamics, you need to know the relationship of both.

Kimberly said...

Heat and work are related in the fact that energy from heat can creat a certain amount of work. Therefore with one comes the other, and vice versa. THE END.

tony said...

It is important because they are almost always found in a pair. It is very rare to see any system with just heat or work. The way energy is transferred from or to a system is usually by heat or work which affects the internal energy of a system and causes it to emit heat or work as output energy.

Andy R said...

Because they can and are related in so many different ways. Just like when you take and pull a nail our of wood.The stress on the nail causes heat also on the wood it seperates from that heat. This is why we need to know both.