Energy
Energy and Thermal Physics

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Paying your electricity (duck) bill

Energy generating companies need to predict the load on their network to ensure that demand can be met. A commonly plotted...

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Energy
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The Mpemba effect

That hot water freezes quicker than cool water had been noted by many observers including Aristotle, Bacon and Descartes...

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Historic and pre-historic energy use

A paper has estimated the power output of a single Norman water mill as around 1.3 kW and, using the number of mills listed in...

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Misconceptions
RESEARCH REVIEW Energy and Thermal Physics

Many students attribute macroscopic properties (like hot, cold, expansion) to particles when using a particulate model

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RESEARCH REVIEW Energy and Thermal Physics

Many students think of energy as synonymous with fuel

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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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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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