2006/04/21 by R. C. Gupta, Gupta, R. C., Anirudh Pradhan +3 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #FOS: Physical sciences #General Physics (physics.gen-ph) #Quantum Mechanics and Applications
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.physics/0604174
openalex publication_date 2006/04/21 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
There are some misnomers and misconceptions about what is heat and what is work; the recognition of heat and work is even more difficult when it comes to categorize energy as heat or work. Since both heat and work are energy the name-confusion does not make much difference from engineering point of view, but re-defining `heat' and `work' in the right-perspective of second-law-of-thermodynamics \cite ref1 is necessary to revise our understanding at fundamental level. It is concluded that `heat is the energy carried by mass-less photons whereas work is energy carried by mass-ive material fermions'. Revised understanding of heat and work in this way has far reaching consequences in Physics [2-4]. The present paper lays emphasis on re-defining heat and work, removing the prevailing misconception, talks about single photon interaction and heat property of photon. Also, interestingly, it is noted that different fields of study such as `Thermodynamics' and `Relativity' are interlinked.