Physics at the Truman Household
Jun. 27th, 2013 07:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
barnabas_truman(We've been running the air conditioner upstairs, but not downstairs.)
*going downstairs*
"Wow, it's hot down here!"
"Interesting. Perhaps temperature is inversely proportional to elevation."
"Whaaaaat?"
"As you yourself observed, we went downstairs and it got warmer."
"How on earth would that work?"
"Conservation of energy, of course. We decrease our elevation and thus lose potential energy, so thermal energy increases as a result."
"Right."
"Trust me; I'm a physics teacher. I know how these things work."
*going downstairs*
"Wow, it's hot down here!"
"Interesting. Perhaps temperature is inversely proportional to elevation."
"Whaaaaat?"
"As you yourself observed, we went downstairs and it got warmer."
"How on earth would that work?"
"Conservation of energy, of course. We decrease our elevation and thus lose potential energy, so thermal energy increases as a result."
"Right."
"Trust me; I'm a physics teacher. I know how these things work."
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Date: 2013-06-28 05:34 pm (UTC)