Sentences with phrase «above simple algebra»

Not exact matches

The simplest things one can do microscopically are things like detailed balance estimates, and so far I haven't made Joe happy even with what I've attempted there, although I think he realizes that my answer is irrelevantly imprecise (or he should realize it once he follows the reasoning in the algebra above that lays out how air can be isothermal and still have the MB velocity distribution from the bottom out to where the assumptions of thermodynamics break down anyway, because to many, many digits when meters is the mean free path of the gas and meters.

That's why I kept the argument in the top post above simple — limited to addressing only Jelbring and the EEJ paper so we could do adiabatic apples to apples reasoning, limited to a picture that even people who don't know much physics can understand — anybody who has tried to touch the handle of a heating pan and found it hot to the touch has direct experience of Fourier's Law, so whether or not they fully understand the algebra they know this happens — and appealing to their intuition as much as to the letter of the various forms of the second law (there are at least four or five that I know of offhand).