VANAGON archives -- February 1997 (#1287)

Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 08:16:45 -0600 Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com> 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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