Energy
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Why birds should avoid solar furnaces

The world’s largest solar furnace, in Odeillo in the French Pyrenees, was built in 1968. The furnace could, when newly...

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Energy
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Energy and exercise

During a marathon, a typical runner transfers around 100 J during each foot strike with the ground, of which around 35 J is...

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Specific Heat Capacity
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Negative heat capacities

It seems intuitive that, when energy is added to a system, its temperature will rise. Hence, the notion of negative heat...

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Misconceptions
RESEARCH REVIEW Energy and Thermal Physics

Many students attribute macroscopic properties like hot and cold, melting, or expanding to particles (or to atoms, molecules) when using a particulate model to explain thermal phenomena

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RESEARCH REVIEW Energy and Thermal Physics

Many students see energy as an ‘intangible fluid’ that flows from one place or object to another during a process

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RESEARCH REVIEW Energy and Thermal Physics

Many students associate ‘energy’ with humans and other living things

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Energy
appears in the relation ΔEΔt>ℏ/2 ΔQ=mcΔθ E=hf E ∝ A^2
has the special case Photon Energy
is used in analyses relating to Emission/Absorption Spectra Phase Change
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