61. Physics Concepts - Glossary One of the undefined qualities of physics, it measures the separation of two points. Anincrease in energy may heat up the object, speed it up, lift it up http://hop.concord.org/amu/amu.concepts.glossary.html

Hands-On-Physics Advanced Mechanics Concepts: GLOSSARY Acceleration is the rate at which the velocity vector changes Charges are the basis of electricity. A charge exert forces on other charges. The smallest charge is the charge of an electron, 0.000000000000000016 Coulombs. Current is the rate of flow of electrical charge. One of the undefined qualities of physics, it measures the separation of two points. Dependent Variable When two variables are related, we say that one depends on the other. This variable is called the dependent variable . The"other" variable is free to roam so it is called the independent variable. In a scientific experiment, the experimenter chooses values for the independent variable, runs the experiment, and measures the dependent variable. Ordered pairs of choosen and measured values (independent and dependent) are often plotted on a two dimensional graph for visualization. The dependent variable is traditionally plotted on the vertical axis. The energy of an object increases when work is done on it. An increase in energy may heat up the object, speed it up, lift it up, or all of the above. The strength of a force is defined by the rate at which it can speed up one kilogram of mass.

62. GCSE Physics: Heat Transfer: CONDUCTION Summary In metals, free electrons carry the heat energy faster than the atomic vibrations Becauseof this, metals are the best conductors of heat energy. http://www.gcse.com/energy/conduction3.htm

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14. HEAT 14.1 Heat as Energy Transfer - Definition of calorie and the mechanical equivalent of heat - Heat is defined as the energy transferred from one body to another because of a difference in temperature 14.2 Distinction between Temperature, Heat and Internal Energy - Differentiate among temperature, heat and internal energy 14.3 The Internal Energy of an Ideal Gas - The equation for the internal energy of an ideal gas is derived 14.4 Specific Heat 14.6 Latent Heat - Definition of specific heat capacity, heat of fusion and heat of vaporization - Calorimetry problem solving AP HOME AP Syllabus

65. Inquiring Minds - Questions About Physics with a simple formula that you can find in a physics textbook in your up formula(not the melting formula), you can calculate how much heat (energy) you gain http://www.fnal.gov/pub/inquiring/questions/melting_ice.html

Questions About Physics You Wrote: Hi, My name is Ian. I am a 12 year old student. I am in the 7th grade. My question is: If a one pound block of ice (-2 degrees C) is placed in an insulated closed room that was 2 feet by 2 feet by 4 feet, set at 5 degrees C, 1.) How long would it take to melt the ice ? 2.) How many Btu's would it take to melt the ice ? 3.) Would the room temperature drop or stay at 5 deg. C ? 4.) If electricity was used to cool the room to 5 deg. C and cost 11 cents per kWh, how much would it cost to melt the ice ? This may be part of a school project. Thanks. Ian Dear Ian, To melt the ice you obviously need some heat (energy). Where does it come from? You say the box is perfectly insulated, that is, no heat will go in or out. Then the only heat available to melt the ice is the heat stored in the air inside the box. The air has a temperature of 5 degrees Celsius. As the air starts to warm up the ice, the air temperature drops. (Remember: perfectly insulated box. Nothing will reheat the air.) Once the air temperature throughout the box is at degrees Celsius, all your heat for melting the ice is used up. (Ice melts at degrees Celsius.) If the ice hasn't turned into water by then, you won't be able to do it at all. (The temperature of the air can, of course, drop below zero degrees throughout the box. For example, both ice and air could end up at -1 degrees Celsius. No ice would have melted.) To melt the ice, you must keep in mind that it takes a certain amount of energy to warm up the ice from -2 degrees to degrees, and then it takes some extra energy to MELT the ice of degrees to liquid water of degrees. (This is called melting energy, and it is the energy needed to break up the molecular bindings inside ice.) You can calculate both quantities with a simple formula that you can find in a physics textbook in your school library. (Look for the keywords "melting" or "heat" in the index.)

66. 12-128 Introduction Thermal physics Temperature, internal energy, specific heat, latent heat, firstand second laws of thermodynamics, energy supplies, heat transfer by conduction http://phys.strath.ac.uk/12-128/

Modern Physics Home undergraduate classes Introduction 12-128 Introduction 12-128 Notices 12-128 Lectures 12-128 Handouts 12-128 Tutorials 12-128 Exams 12-128 Marks 12-128 Links Click here to get the handouts (in PowerPoint format) for Part I of the course: Thermal and Quantum Physics Click here to go to the website for Part II of the course: Electricity and Magnetism An introduction to some of the main concepts of classical and modern physics suitable for students also taking a first year mathematics class in calculus. The emphasis will be on applications in modern science and technology. Topics to be covered will include a description of thermal physics, electricity and magnetism, atomic and nuclear physics, and elementary particles. Thermal Physics: Temperature, internal energy, specific heat, latent heat, first and second laws of thermodynamics, energy supplies, heat transfer by conduction, convection and radiation, the Earth's atmosphere and the greenhouse effect. Electricity and magnetism Magnetic materials. AC circuits - behaviour of resistors, inductors and capacitors; reactance, impedance, Root Mean Square (RMS) values, power dissipation, LC oscillations. The transformer.

67. Organizations Of The NASB Department Of Physical-Engineering Sciences chemical physics; condensed media; convective and wave processes; cryogenic processes;dispersed systems; dryingthermal processes; energy transfer; heat- http://www.ac.by/organizations/institutes/inoteh.html

THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF BELARUS Research and Design Organizations Attached to the Department of Physical-Engineering Sciences THE JOINT INSTITUTE OF POWER ENGINEERING AND NUCLEAR RESEARCH "SOSNY" 99 Akademika Krasina Street, Minsk BY-220109, Republic of Belarus Fax: E-mail: mikhal@sosny.bas-net.by Founded Director: Aleksandr A. MIKHALEVICH tel.: DEPARTMENT "THE INSTITUTE OF POWER ENGINEERING PROBLEMS" 99 Akademika Krasina Street, Minsk BY-220109, Republic of Belarus Fax: E-mail: ipep@sosny.bas-net.by Founded Department Director: Dr. Yurii V. KLIMENKOV tel.: Scientific Secretary: Dr. Aleksandr Ye. SINKEVICH, tel.: Field of scientific activities: Scientific foundation of energetics, power-generating machinery and technology, energy supply and energy saving systems. Safety problems of nuclear energetics Research subdivisions: laboratories of bioenergetic resources anf technologies; ecological-economical investigations; energy saving; experimental physical investigations; heat and mass transfer in apparatus of power plants; material science; nuclear-physical methods of investigation; nuclear-physical processes simulation; nuclear reactors physics; technogenic pollution of the environment; thermal-physical properties and technology of heat-transport media; simulation of transfer processes in power plants; strength of construction components of nuclear power plants Postgraduate Studies in the range of: thermal and molecular physics; power systems and complexes; nuclear power installations

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tennis racquets car tips test your brightness fluorescent vs. halogen ... and yet more lou be sure to check out Lou's book: How Things Work, The Physics of Everyday Life submit a question to Dr. Lou How does house insulation work? — JB Heat flows naturally from a hotter region to a colder region because of statistics. The molecules in a hotter region are jittering about more vigorously than those in a colder region and when the two are brought into contact, it is statistically most likely that the jittering will even out between the two regions. The thermal energy that causes this jittering will gradually flow from the hot region to the cold region so that molecules in the hot region will jitter less vigorously and those in the cold region will jitter more vigorously. In time, the jittering will become equal and thus the temperatures of the two regions will become equal. Thermal insulation acts to slow this flow of thermal energy from hot to cold. Anything that interferes with that heat flow is helpful. Since there are three general mechanisms for heat flow, insulation typically impedes all three. The second classic heat transfer mechanism is thermal convection, whereby hot liquids or gases move about and carry thermal energy with them. Good insulators block convection, either by having no gases or liquids at all, or by making it hard for those gases or liquids to move about. Finely divided materials slow airflow and stop air from carrying heat via convection. Empty space, or vacuum, also stops convection because there is nothing to convect!

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Return to Physics department home page gc Department of Physics ~ AS Year Course Outline Month Module Title Content September Elastic properties of solids Density; Hooke's law; stress and strain; plastic behaviour, fracture and brittleness; the Young modulus. Uncertainty in experimental measurements. October / November Current Electricity Current, p.d and resistance; V-I characteristics; Ohm's law; resistivity; series and parallel resistors; energy and power in circuits; Kirchoff's laws; potential dividers; e.m.f. and internal resistance; alternating currents; the c.r.o. INTERNALLY ASSESSED PRACTICAL COURSEWORK December / January Mechanics Addition, subtraction and resolution of vectors; equilibrium of forces; moment, couple and torque; principle of moments; centre of mass; displacement, speed, velocity and acceleration; analysis of motion graphs; uniform acceleration formulae; terminal speed; projectiles; momentum; conservation of momentum; elastic and inelastic collisions; Newton's laws of motion; work, energy and power; conservation of energy; kinetic, potential and heat energy; specific heat capacity and latent heat.

70. The Physics Of Walking: Falling Forward bit of a struggle— and so is trying to understand the physics of it Somewhere inour legs, muscles are pulling against one another, wasting energy as heat. http://www.discover.com/july_01/featphysics.html

DISCOVER Vol. 22 No. 7 (July 2001) Table of Contents The Physics of Walking: Falling Forward Why humans move like an imperfect pendulum By Robert Kunzig In what one can only assume is Giovanni Cavagna's funniest home video, Cavagna, a jolly physiologist from the University of Milan, is standing in an aviator suit in the passenger compartment of an Airbus A-300. The plane, operated by the European Space Agency, has been cleared of its seats and filled with scientific gear. Cavagna is grinning and holding a pendulum, which is swinging at a steady pace. Next to him, his friend and longtime collaborator Norman Heglund is pacing steadily back and forth on a 10-foot-long platform. The plane is cruising at 30,000 feet or so over the Bay of Biscay, off Bordeaux, France. NASA has a similar plane called the Vomit Comet. mv Women of the Kikuyu and Luo tribes have a remarkable ability: They can carry on their head a basket of produce that weighs as much as 70 percent of their body. Heglund tried to match the feat, wearing a bicycle helmet filled with lead shot; he only got up to 15 percent of his body weight. "When that much weight gets out of balance, it feels like it's going to rip your head off," he explains. The Airbus results teach one potentially useful lesson, Cavagna says: For a manned mission to Mars, spacecraft designers might consider pegging their artificial gravity not at 1 g but at the agreeable .4 g of their destination. Certainly they shouldn't choose 1.5 g's, which the Airbus pilot re-created for Cavagna's group by flying steeply banked circles. You walk faster in 1.5 g's, but you feel, well, surprisingly heavy. "You pick up your foot and start to fall forward, and you think you're going to fall on your nose," Heglund says. The video shows Cavagna jerking along like Charlie Chaplin and looking none too stable.

71. Deutsches Museum - Physics energy cannot be generated, but only converted from one A great impulse to fundamentalphysics resulted from later developments in the study of heat. http://www.deutsches-museum.de/ausstell/dauer/physik/e_phys3.htm

Physics Overview Mechanics Oscillations and Waves Heat Electricity Optics Atomic, Nuclear and Particle Physics Experiments in the physics exhibition Heat In the course of the 18th century it was recognized that, as regards heat, two different ideas are to be distinguished: temperature and the quantity of heat. Bodies having the same temperature can nevertheless contain different quantities of heat. For a long time it was generally thought that heat was a substance which penetrated bodies. Only after the beginning of the 19th century did the idea gain acceptance that what was then called heat was the random motion of molecules. Thereupon it became possible to associate heat with the law of conservation of mechanical energy. This led to the general "principle of conservation of energy" first enunciated by Julius Robert Mayer in 1842: "Energy cannot be generated, but only converted from one form to another". This is one of the Laws of Thermodynamics A great impulse to fundamental physics resulted from later developments in the study of heat. Problems arose in connection with radiation; their solution by Max Planck (1900) led to the quantum theory. Of course there are a large number of experiments and demonstrations devoted to the theory of heat in this area of the exhibition. Here are some of them:

72. Relevant Very Elementary Physics on nuclear energy requires just a little bit of physics. In each transformation,some of the energy becomes unusable, usually in the form of heat. http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress/physics.html

Relevant Very Elementary Physics, mostly nuclear. Up to: FAQ on nuclear energy. Unless one takes some rather complex facts on authority, which may be good enough depending on the authority, forming an opinion on nuclear energy requires just a little bit of physics. Let me assure the reader that nothing in what follows is controversial. Many readers will find nothing they don't already know. Here are some facts. Energy is an additive quantitative entity. Thus if you use 50 kilowatt-hours of energy for one purpose and 40 kilowatt-hours for another purpose, then you will have to pay for 90 kilowatt-hours at the end of the month. The United States generated 2.572 trillion kilowatt-hours of electricity in 1987. A kilowatt-hour cost approximately between $.02 and $.10 in 1987 depending on the customer and the utility. Power is measured in watts or kilowatts (1,000 watts) or megawatts (one million watts. An electric generator is rated in watts. A large nuclear power plant has a power of 1,000 megawatts (or one gigawatt). If a one kilowatt generator runs for an hour, it produces a kilowatt-hour of electric energy. The amount of energy handled by humanity is still small compared to the amount of energy in the sunlight that strikes the earth. It's about one part in 50,000.

73. Contents Systems; Chemical Potential energy; heat; Body Temperature Regulation; Cellular Metabolism;Photosynthesis and Entropy Generation in the Biome Problems. Wave physics. http://www.rwc.uc.edu/koehler/biophys/contents.html

Contents Introduction Dimensions and Units Coordinate Systems Idealization, Approximation and Precision ... Problems Mechanics Kinematics Vectors Dynamics Friction and Drag ... Problems Fluids The Human Cardiovascular System The Nature of Fluids Poiseuille's Equation Pulsatile Flow ... Problems Electricity Coulomb Force Electric Potential Membrane Potentials The Action Potential ... Problems Magnetism Magnetic Fields Mass Spectroscopy, Current Loops and Spin Magnetic Resonance Imaging Problems Atomic Physics Bohr Model of the Atom Quantum Numbers and the Periodic Table Electromagnetic Radiation Spectral Sensitivity of the Eye ... Problems Nuclear Physics Rutherford Model Nuclear Reactions Nuclear Decay and Radioactive Series Biological Effects of Radiation ... Problems Thermodynamics Statistical Systems Chemical Potential Energy Heat Body Temperature Regulation ... Problems Wave Physics Kinematics Superposition Boundary Conditions The Doppler Effect ... Biophysical Chronology Index: A B C D ... Z If you have stumbled on this page, and the equations look funny (or you just want to know where you are!), see the College Physics for Students of Biology and Chemistry home page.

74. Symbols And Abbreviations Q, heat (energy). W, Watts* (power = J / s), weight (force), work (energy). funny(or you just want to know where you are!), see the College physics for Students http://www.rwc.uc.edu/koehler/biophys/symb.html

Symbols and Abbreviations Units are denoted by an asterisk. Dimensions and values of constants are in parentheses. See also the NIST pages on constants, units and uncertainty a, A acceleration (length / time atomic mass (total number of protons and neutrons in an atom) A Amperes * (electric current = C / s), Angstroms* (length = 10 m), amplitude (length) b intercept of a linear graph, drag coefficient (mass / time) B magnetic field (force / current) c speed of light (2.998 x 10 m / s), specific heat (energy / mass x temperature), concentration (number / volume), speed of sound cal calories * (energy = 4.186 J) cc cubic centimeter c g group velocity c p phase velocity C Celsius* (temperature), Coulombs * (electric charge), capacitance (charge / electric potential), heat capacity (energy / temperature), concentration Cal kilocalories * (energy) Ci Curie * (unit of radiation, equivalent to 3.7 x 10 decays / s) d distance D diffusion constant (area / time) db decibels (relative intensity) e electron, charge of an electron (1.602 x 10 C) eV electron Volts * (energy = 1.602 x 10

75. Nature Publishing Group Thermal physics heat in one dimension as the design of components that dissipateheat efficiently in In building models of energytransport processes, the aim http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v421/n6921/full/

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Chapter 6: Work and Energy Applications What is Physics Good For? The Energy Idea The principle of Energy Conservation is one of the great unifying principles of physics. There is no quick and simple way to grasp the idea of energy or to appreciate the importance of the idea and of the conservation principle. The appreciation comes slowly with use and practice, much like learning a language comes with listening and speaking. The one sentence definition: 'Energy is the ability to do work' is next to useless unless one has a clear understanding of what 'work' is. Energy is what we buy from the electrical company, energy is what we eat food for, energy can be extracted from gasoline in the tank and from waterfalls and the wind. Energy is what reaches us from the Sun and makes life on Earth possible. Energy is what gives us cancer if we get exposed to radiation. In all the variety of change around us, energy is converted from one form to another but is never lost. The appreciation of the idea comes when you realize the importance of any conservation principle. A conservation principle states that confusing as change may be, some quantities stay the same. All through human history people tried to make sense of things by looking for these invariant, conserved, quantities. Glimpses of the idea of energy predate Newton and his laws of mechanics.

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Physics is one of the physical sciences. This means that it studies the laws that govern the physical world. (The life sciences, on the other hand, study living organisms). Physics tries to understand the nature of basic things such as motion, forces, energy, matter, heat, sound, and light. Because these are found throughout the universe, physicists study a wide range of things. Black holes, atoms, engines, elevators, and baseballs all obey the laws of physics. You might find a physicist smashing atomic particles together to find out how the universe began, or you might find a physicist orbiting the earth as an astronaut. Physicists also work in hospitals designing new instruments or scanning techniques. Some physicists create smaller, faster electronics for the next generation of computers. Physics is relevant to many other sciences, such as astronomy, biology, and geology. The combinations of these fields are called astrophysics, biophysics, and geophysics. Engineers apply physics to design things; in fact, some students study a subject called Engineering Physics. Physics often uses mathematics to describe the laws of nature. One of the most famous equations of this type was Einstein's formula E=mc

80. Physics: Science Content Standards For Grades Nine Through Twelve Board of Education, Grades Nine Through Twelve physics Science Content although inmany processes energy is transferred to the environment as heat. http://www.cde.ca.gov/standards/science/physics.html

California Dept of Education A-Z Index Search Help ... Resources Grades Nine Through Twelve Physics Science Content Standards Curriculum Standards Science Physics Standards that all students are expected to achieve in the course of their studies are unmarked. Standards that all students should have the opportunity to learn are marked with an asterisk (*). Motion and Forces 1. Newton's laws predict the motion of most objects. As a basis for understanding this concept: a. Students know how to solve problems that involve constant speed and average speed. b. Students know that when forces are balanced, no acceleration occurs; thus an object continues to move at a constant speed or stays at rest (Newton's first law). c. Students know how to apply the law F ma to solve one-dimensional motion problems that involve constant forces (Newton's second law). d. Students know that when one object exerts a force on a second object, the second object always exerts a force of equal magnitude and in the opposite direction (Newton's third law). e.

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