Energy Education:Chapter 1

There are videos on youtube to watch as well as reading these pages. These pages and videos will introduce the basic ideas that underpin the entire course. Please read the following pages and watch the videos before the lectures on chapter 1:

Here is the pre-class reading for lecture 1A:

• System and surrounding
• Energy
• Matter
• Embodied energy
• Mass

Here is the pre-class reading for lecture 1B:

• Density
• Work
• Power
• Energy vs power
• Simple machine
• Pulley
• Lever
• Newton

Here is the pre-class reading for lecture 1C:

• Potential energy
• Kinetic energy
• Mechanical energy

Here is the pre-class reading for lecture 1D:

• Elastic potential energy
• Friction
• Heat
• Mechanical equivalent of heat
• Conservation of energy

Here is the pre-class reading for lecture 1E:

• Chemical reaction
• Atom
• Molecule
• Blackbody radiation
• Electromagnetic spectrum
• Lenz's law
• Electric motor
• Electric generator
• Energy conversion technology

Here is the pre-class reading for lecture 1F:

• Primary energy
• Fuel
• Flow