Or I could have a non-adiabatic, I could take the same temperature change, by taking a flame, or a heat source and heating up my substance. So, clearly q is going to depend on the path.
My mother, Patricia Cockburn, took mytemperature and asked Paddy McMahon, an elderly man who looked after the walled garden and our small herd of sheep, to bicycle into the town of Youghal a mile and a half away, to get a doctor.
In a room at the university I was wired up with several electrodes and sensors to record my body temperature, sweat production and the movement of the "emotional" muscles around my left eye.
When I crossed into the mainland a few weeks later, I was questioned vigorously by customs officials while remote scanners evaluated my body temperature.