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Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 14:00:08 -0800 (PST)
From: Yih-Chun Chang <ychang@linfield.edu>
To: The Lins <NSX300396@aol.com>,
Shizuka Takanishi <stakanis@MailBox.Syr.Edu>,
sandy lwai <lwaisk@plu.edu>, Giant Chu Lin <lin_gi@catseq.catlin.edu>,
Nicole Lee <nulee@mit.edu>, John Liu <sjliu@MailBox.Syr.Edu>,
Leanna Hong-Louie <honglolc@plu.edu>,
Chiang-Chien Chi <cchi@uofport.edu>, Leilani Balais <balaislv@plu.edu>
Subject: chem thing! (fwd)
Oh! NO! It's chemistry!! :)
--Kimmy
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>>
>> A true story. A thermodynamics professor had written
>> a take home exam for his graduate students. It had
>> one question:
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>> Is hell exothermic or endothermic?
>> Support your answer with a proof.
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>> Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs
>> using Boyle's Law or some variant. One student,
>> however wrote the following:
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>> First, we postulate that if souls exist, then
>> they must have some mass.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> It was not revealed what grade the student got.
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