
Ep 122: ”Work and Heat” - Chiara Marletto’s ”The Science of Can and Can’t” Chapter 6 Readings & Discussion.
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The Second Law of Work Like and Heat Like
Work and heat are not substances, just as information is not a substance. I call reversible transfers work like the transferred energy that can be re used ad infinitum to initiate or to stop controlled, ordered kinds of motion. The irreversible transfers heat like the second law requires some energy transfers to be heat like. Once they happen, it is impossible to recycle some of the energy involved in them. That energy can no longerbe used fully for a work like transfer only some of it can. This distinction between work like and heat like is a key of this constructor theoretic view of the second law. And the constructoveoretic view is obviously also couched in terms of this idea of a
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