"Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)? Support your answer with a proof."
This was an actual question given on a University of Washington chemistry midterm:
Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law (gas cools off when it expands and heats up when it is compressed) or some variant thereof.
One student, however, wrote the following:
First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So, we need to know the rate that souls are moving into Hell and the rate they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets...
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