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General Forums => Generic Discussion => Topic started by: Donaldson Tan on May 27, 2005, 03:01:01 AM

Title: Quantising Heat..
Post by: Donaldson Tan on May 27, 2005, 03:01:01 AM

Light can be quantised into photons. Can heat be quantised as well?

Title: Re:Quantising Heat..
Post by: Mitch on May 29, 2005, 04:04:52 PM

I assume your talking about one atom at a time process?

Title: Re:Quantising Heat..
Post by: Donaldson Tan on May 29, 2005, 07:07:08 PM

mitch: i have totally no idea what you are talking about

Title: Re:Quantising Heat..
Post by: Mitch on May 29, 2005, 07:08:33 PM

I have no idea what you are talking about.

Title: Re:Quantising Heat..
Post by: Donaldson Tan on May 29, 2005, 07:23:34 PM

is heat a macroscopic phenomena? at molecular level, we describe the molecules in terms of their kinetic and internal energy, and not the temperature. however, we only disucss heat content for macroscopic scale, eg. industrial processes. so heat can never be quantised?

Title: Re:Quantising Heat..
Post by: Borek on May 29, 2005, 07:34:08 PM

average energy = kT is a bridge between both levels.

Title: Re:Quantising Heat..
Post by: Mitch on May 29, 2005, 09:19:43 PM

macro, not quantized