In article <d6d4e6d1-7920-4163-b097-8e1445b02faa@h19g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>, Darwin123 <drosen0000@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Most of thermodynamics can be visualized by imagining that entropy > is an indestructible fluid. Temperature is a quantity proportional to > the pressure this fluid can exert. One can think of entropy as > analogous to electric charge, and temperature as analogous to voltage.
Help me understand that. Given that the greater difference in temperature between an object and the environment (think of a hot bar of steel in an ambient atmosphere of 0c) then the faster the transfer of energy from the bar to the atmosphere.