Energy Stores and Systems

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  • Energy Stores and Systems
    • Energy is transferred between stores
      • Energy stores
        • Chemical
        • Elastic Potential
        • Magnetic
        • Gravitational Potential
        • Electrostatic
        • Kinetic
        • Nuclear
        • Thermal
    • System Changes
      • System = fancy word for an object or group of objects
      • Energy is transferred when a system is changed
        • Into or away from the net-change
        • Between different objects
        • Between different types of energy stores
      • Closed system
        • Neither matter or energy can enter or leave
        • Total energy - always zero
    • Heat transfer
      • example of boiling water
      • Energy tranferred
        • from kettles heating element
          • to waters thermal energy store
    • Work done
      • Another word for energy transferred
      • Can be done when current flows

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