Energy Education:Chapter 3
One of the confusing aspects of talking about energy is that different people use the same word (or words) to mean very different things. Sometimes energy means electricity, sometimes it means power. In Calgary some people even say "We have both kinds of energy: oil AND gas!" What do we mean? Why do people mean different things when they use the word energy. Please read the following pages before the lectures on chapter 3:
3A
- Energy
- Power
- Energy vs power
- Force
- Work
- Simple machine
- Pulley
- Lever
- Newton
- Kinetic energy
- Potential energy
- Mechanical energy
- Lenz's law
3B
- Energy transformations
- Mechanical equivalent of heat
- Friction
- Conservation of energy
- Primary energy
- Power servant
- [[kWh]
- Calorie
- Watt
- Joule
- Quad
- BOE
- Horsepower
- kWh
3C