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Common Energy Transfers

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Common Energy Transfers

Here are some common energy transfers.

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Mechanical transfers

  • Bicycle braking: energy transferred from the kinetic energy store → thermal energy store.
  • Changing motion: energy transferred from the chemical energy store → kinetic energy store.
  • Dropping an object: energy transferred from the gravitational potential energy store → kinetic energy store.
  • Stretching a spring: chemical energy → elastic energy.
  • Releasing a stretched spring: energy transferred from the elastic energy store → kinetic energy store.
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Radiative transfers

  • Candle burning: energy transferred from the chemical energy store → thermal energy store.
  • A bulb in an electrical circuit: energy transferred from the chemical energy store → electrical energy store → thermal energy store.

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