When teaching this topic, it is important to avoid your students conflating the energy analysis with an explanation of what’s...

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Energy is an abstract concept and it can be hard to get a feel for the quantity of energy transferred in different events.

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A wonderfully detailed list of the energy expenditures of various activities has been produced.

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Some diet regimes have suggested that dieters consume ‘negative calorie’ foods in order to lose weight. Theoretically...

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Rather than simply comparing the absolute calorific value of foods, energy density can be a useful measure.

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Vegetarian diets have a significant environmental benefit in terms of the energy costs of production.

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The word ‘energy’ originates from the Greek energhéia, a concept Aristotle linked with the idea of hypothetical entities...

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An important factor in the failure of Robert Falcon Scott’s expedition to the South Pole was an error in estimating the energy...

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When engaged in a difficult task, you may have justified the consumption of a sweet treat based on the belief that the sugar...

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James Joule, born in 1818, came from a long-established brewing family and the Joule family brewery is still in operation...

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Another proposer of the principle of conservation of energy, Benjamin Thompson (later, Count Rumford), was born in Woburn...

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Joseph Black, who became professor of medicine and chemistry at Glasgow University, was born in Bordeaux in 1728 to a family...

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