Interesting Question to Physics Majors

[Kroka W. Bush]

A thermodynamics professor had written a take home exam for his graduate students. It had one question:

"Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)? Support your answer with a proof."

Your opinion?

[Dave]

:)
ya dumayu chto eto endothermic.
proof: isxodya iz togo chto vse popavshie v ad nikogda ne vozravshayutsya, my mojem zaklyuchit' chto s istecheniem vremeni v adu povyshaetsya energy za schet uvilicheniya plotnosti dush.

good enough? :)

[Kroka W. Bush]

Close :)

[Kroka W. Bush]

Anyone with better solution?

[Ross]

:). jdat' ostalos' malo, Edik, poterpi, skoro uznaem.

[sean]

ross speaks, as though there gonna be air conditioners in hell,
peace out

[manosha]

lol , Ya viju v atlante daje professora ediki , ne govorya uje o krokodilah .
kroka ne umnichay mnogo , skaji PROFFU chto emu eshe ne dolgo ostalos do tochnogo i naglyadnogo otveta.
:)

P.S Ross salom, Ishlariz qale?

[Kroka W. Bush]

Professora eshe ne znayut chto oni Ediki, a vopros eto ne v nashem univere a v University of Washington, Missouri. I k tomu je graduate level physics :)

:) a che ty profa v ad posilaesh a? :) on etogo ne zaslujil :)
;)
Kroka
"The question is: ARE YOU FAT OR NOT?" - Weird Al

[Freestyler]

Pardon'te za intrusion, tovarishi-Umidovci - uj ochen' intriguyushiy vopros okazalsya

A ya dumal v ad yesho nikto poka ne popal.

Yesli verit' religii, to v ad popadut ludi, kotoriye yakobi zaslujili etogo i tol'ko posle "Sudnogo dnya", to bish Apokalipsisa. "Sudniy den'" yakobi nastupit tol'ko togda, kogda na zemle ne ostanetsya ni odnogo nevernogo (ili ni odnogo musul'manina - ne pomnyu tochno kakoye iz etih imenno).
Tak chto, mojete ne bespokoitsya, do ada yesho daleko, i teh i drugih u nas poka predostatochno.

I guess if I go to hell I won't be there alone!
Hot' goret' budet ne skuchno...

I yesho, k chemu nujen bil takoy vopros?

I potom, uchyonniye na skol'ko ya znayu poka tak i ne dokazali chto dusha - eto chto-to material'noye. (From elementary physics: Massa, ili materiya, vsegda = energiya. Note: obratnoye okazivayetsya teper' ne vsegda verno, tak kak uchyoniye uje nauchilis' dobivat' energiyu iz vakuuma, no poka tol'ko teoriticheski).
Tak chto versiya predlojennaya Dave'om mojet i pravil'naya, no obyasneniye ne sovsem logichnoye.

Take it easy, guys!

[SUN6500]

Well, I think it is exothermic. Theologically speaking, according to scholars this mythical place is located on Earth and to be precise somewhere (he-he) under the layers of Earth's crust. Therefore, since earth's epicenter (the manitium) irradiates heat, I think HELL somehow takes this heat for granted and uses it for its own purposes (i.e., human barbecue and teriyaki-a-la-homo-sapiens ;) ). Since we we know from physics that heat always goes upstream, so do lava of volcanos. Hence, HELL is exothermic because a very nature of heat is directed outwards (at least on earth).
:)

Yangi Yilingiz Muborak Bo'lsin.

[Kroka W. Bush]

Oy kakie interesnie theories :)
Vot, vas toje s novim godom vseh i vot vam otvet as a new years gift:

A thermodynamics professor at the University of Washington (Missouri or in Washington state? not sure) had written a take home exam for his graduate students. It had one question:

"Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)? Support your answer with a proof."

Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law (gas cools off when it expands and heats up when it is compressed) or some variant. One student, however, wrote the following:

First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So, we need to know the rate that souls are moving into Hell and the rate they are 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 how many souls are entering Hell, let's 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 since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all people and all the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially. Now, we look at the rate of change of the volume in Hell because Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell has to expand as souls are added.

This gives two possibilities:

(1) Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure will increase until all Hell breaks loose.

(2) Of course, if Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over.

So which is it? If we accept the postulate given to me by Ms. Therese Banyan during my Freshman year, "That it will be a cold night in Hell before I sleep with you," and take into account the fact that I still have not succeeded in that area, then (2) cannot be true, and so Hell is exothermic.

The student got the only A.

[Alouddin]

crap... :?