Contents
- 1 Overview of Conservation of Energy Chain
- 2 4–1What is energy?
- 3 Are you certain your problem is an energy or momentum problem?
- 4 Electricity—the best kind of energy?
- 5 How much energy will the world use in future?
- 6 Want more science experiments?
- 7 What Do You Mean?
- 8 What is Energy Conservation?
- 9 What is energy conservation?
- 10 What is Energy Transfer?
- 11 What is energy transfer?
- 12 What is Energy Transformation?
- 13 What is energy transformation?
- 14 Where does the world’s oil come from?
- 15 Which fuels supply the world’s energy?
- 16 Which world regions use most energy?
- 17 History of Conservation of Energy Chain
Overview of Conservation of Energy Chain
4–1What is energy?
In this chapter, we begin our more detailed study of the
different aspects of physics, having finished our description of things
in general.To illustrate the ideas and the kind of reasoning that might
be used in theoretical physics, we shall now examine one of the most
basic laws of physics, the conservation of energy.
Are you certain your problem is an energy or momentum problem?
One of the most common mistakes is to think too hard.If you are told velocity and asked for kinetic energy, for example, you aren’t tracking energy changes and don’t need to go through all of the steps of a Conservation Law problem.Check Definition and Ratio problems to see if you can find a useful example.
Electricity—the best kind of energy?
Fossil fuels such as oil, gas, and coal have been enormously helpful
to humankind’s economic development.Coal powered the industrial
revolution in the 18th and 19th centuries, while
oil made possible a huge growth in personal transportation following
the invention of the internal combustion engine.Gas, a much cleaner
and more efficient fuel, has become an increasingly important source of
power since the mid-20th-century.Yet all these fuels have
their drawbacks.Coal is dirty and inefficient.Oil exists in limited
supplies in places such as the Middle East and growing demand for it is
a major source of world tensions and wars.Gas, though easy to move from
place to place, can be dangerous when it leaks or escapes.Turning
coal, gas, oil and other fuels into electricity is a way to make them
much more versatile and useful.
How much energy will the world use in future?
According to the US government’s Energy Information Administration,
world energy consumption will increase by about three quarters between 2000 and 2030,
and double between 2000 and 2040.The biggest growth will be in developing countries such as China and India (and other nations outside the
OECD).
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What Do You Mean?
The Sun, a source of solar energy, transfers thermal (heat) and light energy to humans, animals and plants.
What is Energy Conservation?
It means that the total amount of energy remains the same.
What is energy conservation?
There are many different types of energy, including kinetic, potential, gravitational and electrical.
What is Energy Transfer?
The movement of energy from one location to another.
What is energy transfer?
Energy transfer refers to the movement of energy from one place to another.Think of the electricity that flows from your wall socket, then moves through a charger and into a battery.The energy is being transferred from the wall socket to the battery.
What is Energy Transformation?
The process of the changing of the energy from one type to another.
What is energy transformation?
One type of energy can change into another type of energy.Energy transformation means the changing of energy from one type to another, e.g.from kinetic energy to electrical energy, or from potential energy to kinetic energy.
Where does the world’s oil come from?
Just eleven countries produce three quarters of the world’s oil
(in order of production, they are: United States, Saudi Arabia, Russian Federation,
Iraq, Canada, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, China, Iran, Brazil, and Nigeria).Although the United States is one of the world’s biggest oil producers,
it’s also the world’s biggest oil consumer by far.It imports more oil than
any other country—and almost 50 percent more than China.Although people assume most of the world’s oil comes
from the Middle East, two thirds is supplied by other parts of the world.
Which fuels supply the world’s energy?
Despite all the talk of “green energy”, fossil fuels still supply
about 84 percent of all world energy.Use of coal is now falling (down from 30 percent in 2015
to 27 percent in 2019), while renewables are increasing (up from 2 percent in 2015 and 3 percent in 2016
to 5 percent in 2019).
Which world regions use most energy?
This chart shows that developed countries use much more energy than
developing countries.Since 2009, China has used more energy in total than any other country in the world
(including the United States).