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Clusters challenge common sense

Apr 1, 2001

Heat something and it gets hotter, right? It isn't always true. In some cases, it is possible for an object to get colder when it is heated. A system that gets colder when energy is added is said to have a negative heat capacity and it can never come into thermal equilibrium with its surroundings.

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