bullshit. Youre reading and believing Wikipedi too much. We quantize angular momentum, linear accel, HP etc etc all the time. AS I SAID , thats a way we deign stuff that goes around and around an changes energy states to do work
In my defence i did look it up before typing (i had been using the word and wasnt totally sure i had been using it corretly). But back to to topic, it can be be expressed exactly in terns of an indivisible unit then?
The Basic (SI) unit for energy is the Joule (J)--. Other common terms for energy are Calorie, erg, ft-lbf, watt hour, horsepower hour, BTU, kilotons of TNT, electron volt.
That's exactly what I did mean, so it isn't composed of quanta.
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Tue 13 Nov, 2012 05:02 pm
@DrewDad,
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Convert a Joule to an electron volt (they're both units of energ). A quanta of energy is a small fraction of an eV by Plank's relation (E=h*nu). On a macrosopic level, say anything involving more than the mass of an hydrogen nucleus, energy is effectively continuous.
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