Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 08:16:45 -0600
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From: "Dan Soiney" <Soineydg@mail.milwaukee.k12.wi.us>
Subject: Fw: (fwd) If you've had thermo, you will laugh at this!!! (fwd)
:
: If anyone has been in a thermo class, this should make you laugh...
:
:
: Allegedly a true story. A thermodynamics professor had written a take
: home exam for his graduate students. It had one question:
:
: Is hell exothermic or endothermic?
: Support your answer with a proof.
:
: Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law or
some
: variant. One student, however wrote the following:
:
: First, we postulate that if souls exist, then they must have some mass.
:
: If they do, then a mole of souls can also have a mass. So, at what rate
are
: souls moving into hell and at what rate are souls leaving? I think that
we
: can safely assume that once a soul gets to hell, it will not leave.
:
: Therefore, no souls are leaving.
:
: As for souls entering hell, lets 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 hell.
:
: Since there are more than one of these religions and people do not belong
: to more than one religion, we can project that all people and all souls
go
: to hell.
:
: With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls
: in hell to increase exponentially.
:
: Now, we look at the rate of change in volume in hell. Boyle's Law states
: that in order for the temperature and pressure in hell to stay the same,
: the ratio of the mass of souls and volume needs to stay constant.
:
: So, if hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls
enter
: hell, then the temperature and pressure in hell will increase until all
hell
: breaks loose.
:
: Of course, if hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of
souls in
: hell, than the temperature and pressure will drop until hell freezes
over.
:
: >>>>>>It was not revealed what grade the student got.
:
: ----- End of forwarded message from Danielle Lienau -----
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