Where is our resident physics professor to set the record straight here?
calling @colton???? I give him heartburn......
Where is our resident physics professor to set the record straight here?
Sorry, I haven't read this thread at all. What is there to set the record straight about?Where is our resident physics professor to set the record straight here?
By the way, the definition of heat capacity given by Silesian is the classical definition. Not the "text book" definition. The modern qm definition is the one with degrees of freedom for translational motion (temp) vs potential energy like the chemical bonds in a molecule, as given by babe. They can both be found in text books.
Sorry, I haven't read this thread at all. What is there to set the record straight about?
I don't know if you are a physics professor or a psychology/mass communications/PoliSci professor or what, but I think Log has the same notion somehow that you're teaching physics.
Yes, I'm a physics professor. Certainly not an expert on climate science, though... although I think I understand enough of the science to understand those who are experts. I was at a national physics conference a couple of weeks ago and went to a 30 minute talk that tried to summarize the state of the art in climate models. The guy basically started with the simplest model, then added refinements, describing each new term in the calculations while showing the results getting more and more accurate. I was frankly impressed at how accurate they are getting, although the guy admitted there are still some factors too difficult to take into account. But the models do account for the vast majority of what we see in observations, which is a great indication that people do understand the science pretty well. And there's no doubt about serious human driven climate change.
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