The State Function
state function (noun):
a property of a system which is determined
by the system's current state,
independent of the path taken
to achieve that state.
given these starting values and final values,
determine the delta
The State Function
state function (noun):
a property of a system which is determined
by the system's current state,
independent of the path taken
to achieve that state.
given these starting values and final values,
determine the delta v for each state.
then explain any conclusions you have drawn.
a talented athlete
a sharp knife
an oppressed people
an altitude of sixty thousand feet
an infestation of rodents
a broken record
a dull knife
a new liberty
a charred crater, fifty feet wide
a house free of vermin
determine the delta v for each state:
a civil war
a scientist who is too busy to notice his son's depression
a steroid injection (or twenty)
riots in the streets
a fire in the engine room
a mouse, slowly starving in a glue trap
after it has tried to chew off its own limbs
in one last, desperate effort
life is not a state function.