No...when I speak of the 2nd law, I am speaking of all forms of energy which is why I bothered to mention boulders at the top of a hill...you believed that THERMOdynamics only dealt with thermal energy and said pretty clearly that that was why it was called THERMOdynamics. Spoken like a true putz...and now you are trying to weasel out of it in a manger that must make all putzes proud.
Tell my why a boulder sitting on top of a hill and not moving has anything to do with thermodynamics.
Because it represents potential energy...and if you start it rolling, it demonstrates transitional kinetic energy. It is unfortunate that all of this has escaped you for so long...this is basic stuff...and if you don't know this, then all you believe you know about thermodynamics is suspect.
Everyone knows about translational KE. You missed the point, and posted another non sequitur. A boulder sitting on top of a hill and
not moving has nothing to do with thermodynamics.
Of course it does...Here..I will give you a link to a physics site that with some work you might begin to understand...
The second law of thermodynamics - how energy flows from useful to useless.
A little over half way down the page there is an illustration of a circuit involving a battery, a light bulb and a switch...the paragraph just below it explains it in terms you might understand...or then again, you might not...since you don't seem to be able to grasp that anything to do with energy of any sort is governed by the 2nd law of thermodynamics...and thermodynamics isn't just about things that are thermal. The example has you holding a rock above your head which may seem different than a rock sitting at the top of a hill, but trust me, the principles are the same...try not to be confused. The paragraph says:
Hold a rock over your head. The gravitational potential energy is there. Let go of the rock and it gets pulled down to the ground (or your head if you're not careful). The rock's potentialenergy is converted to kinetic energy as it rushes to get to the lower energy level of the ground. When it hits the ground the kinetic energy is converted to sound waves and low-grade thermal energy, heating up the rock and the ground.