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The document outlines various types of energy stores and transfers, including kinetic, thermal, chemical, elastic potential, gravitational potential, electrical, sound, and light energy. It explains how energy is defined, transferred, and conserved, as well as the significance of energy changes in different contexts, such as in machines and natural phenomena. Additionally, it highlights the differences between useful and wasted energy, and the challenges of storing certain types of energy.

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PHYSICS

The document outlines various types of energy stores and transfers, including kinetic, thermal, chemical, elastic potential, gravitational potential, electrical, sound, and light energy. It explains how energy is defined, transferred, and conserved, as well as the significance of energy changes in different contexts, such as in machines and natural phenomena. Additionally, it highlights the differences between useful and wasted energy, and the challenges of storing certain types of energy.

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1.

What are the different types of energy stores and transfers


1. Kinetic energy: Energy in movement
2. Thermal energy: Heat energy in hot objects.
3. Chemical energy: Stored in food, batteries, fuels.
4. Elastic potential energy: stored when stretched or squeezed.
5. Gravitational potential energy: stored when lifted away from gravity.
6. Electrical energy: flow of current in a circuit.
7. Sound energy: transferred from vibrating objects.
8. Light energy: Visible energy from luminous objects.

2. What is kinetic energy?


Kinetic energy is stored due to the movement of an object.

3. What is chemical energy?


chemical energy is stored in foods, batteries, and fuels like wood, oil and coal.

4. How is thermal energy transferred?


Thermal energy is transferred from hot objects to colder objects.

5. How is electrical energy transferred?


Electrical energy is transferred by the flow of energy in a circuit.

6. How is sound energy transferred?


Sound energy is transferred from vibrating objects.

7. What is light energy?


Light energy is visible energy from luminous objects that you see.

8. What are the examples of energy stores that last for a long time?
· Batteries (chemical energy)
· Coal (chemical energy)
· Crude oil (chemical energy)
· Uncooked rice (chemical energy)
· Gravitational potential energy (e.g. water in a tank)

9. What are the examples of energy stores that do not last for a long time?
Thermal energy and kinetic energy.

10. What is energy defined as?


energy is something that must be changed or transferred in order to do
something.

11. Why is kinetic energy more difficult to store than chemical or gravitational
potential energy?
Kinetic energy is more difficult to store because it is associated with movement,
which can stop.

12. What is an example of kinetic energy?


A moving tennis ball has a store of kinetic energy.

13. How does a pump relate to gravitational potential energy?


A pump can lift water, storing gravitational potential energy in water.

14. How does the growth of human population affect energy usage?
· Increased demand for energy
· more energy stores and transfers needed
· examples: more fuel consumption, higher electricity usage.

15. What must energy do in order to be used?


Energy must be changed or transferred.

16. What happens to energy when it is stored?


When energy is stored, it is not doing anything.

17. What type of energy is wood considered to be and how does burning affect
it?
wood is a type of chemical energy and burning it changes it to thermal energy.

18. What type of energy is created when people walk stairs?


Kinetic energy is changed into gravitational potential energy.

19. What type of energy does a power station use from natural gas?
A power station uses chemical energy stored in natural gas.

20. How is thermal energy converted in a power station?


The thermal energy is changed to kinetic energy in large generators.

21. What is the law of conservation of energy?


Energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transferred.

22. What are the properties of energy?


· Energy cannot be created or destroyed.
· Energy can be stored or transfered.
· energy is measured in joules (J)

23. Where is elastic energy found?


In stretched objects.

24. What happens to energy during a transfer in a machine?


· Some energy is useful.
· The rest is wasted energy.
· Wasted energy is dissipated and transferred to non-useful stores.

25. What does it mean when energy is said to be dissipated?


It spreads out and is transferred to stores that are not useful.

26. What is the significance of energy being everywhere?


It indicaes that energy is never destroyed or used up, only transferred.
27. If coal is burned, what type of energy is primarily produced?
Chemical energy is converted to thermal energy.

28. How does the concept of energy conservation apply to machines?


Machines transfer energy but some energy is always wasted.

29. What is the description of elastic potential energy?


Elastic potential energy is stored when things are stretched or squeezed to change
their shape.

30. What is the description of gravitational potential energy?


Gravitational potential energy is stored when an object is lifted away from a
source of gravity.

What energy changes occur in a television?


A television converts electrical energy to sound and light.

What happens to a book a when it falls from a shelf?


The book changes gravitational potential energy to kinetic energy as it falls.

What are the useful and wasted energy changes in a motorcycle engine?
· Useful energy: Chemical energy to kinetic (movement)
· Wasted energy: Chemical energy to thermal and sound energy

How is electrical energy transferred from a power station?


Electrical energy is transferred through wires into homes and buildings.

What are some examples of dangerous energy changes?


Typhoons, hurricanes, earthquakes and tsunamis are examples.

What is a process that changes or transfers energy?


Burning is a process that changes energy.

What percentage of chemical energy in fuel is used for movement in a


motocycle?
About 25% of the chemical energy is used for movement.

What happens to the remaining energy in a motorcycle engine?


About 75% of the energy is wasted and cannot be recovered.

What happens to temperature as you move away from a hot object?


the temperature will go down as you move further away.

Which types of energy can be dissipated?


Chemical, thermal, light, sound and elastic energy can be dissipated.

What does it mean for energy to be dissipated?


Dissipated energy spreads out and becomes less useful.

What happens to thermal energy when heating water over a fire?


Some thermal energy escapes in the steam.

What is the nature of wasted thermal energy?


Wasted thermal energy is dissipated and cannot be recovered.

How much electrical energy does Lamp B convert into light?


Lamp B converts about 50% of electrical energy into light.

How much electrical energy does Lamp A convert into light?


lamp A converts about 15% of electrical energy into light.

Where can energy from a fire go besides heating water?


Energy can also heat the rocks, the metal container and the air around it.
What energy is transferred from a fire to water in a container?
Thermal energy is transferred from the fire to the water.

What is the significance of understanding energy changes?


Understanding energy changes helps us identify useful and wasted energy.

What is the term for energy that is not useful but can be stored?
Energy that is not useful but can be stored is not dissipated energy.

How does an electric motor change electrical energy?


An electric motor changes electrical energy into useful and wasted forms.

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