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3 years ago

When electrical is "used by a light bulb", what really happens to energy

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It gets converted from one form to other forms.

The great thing about the incandescent light bulb ... the original kind,
invented by Thomas Edison ... is that it can take electrical energy and
instantly turn it into light energy and heat energy. So you can use the
bulbs in your house to see at night without burning candles or oil, and
you can even use them in your chicken coop to keep the chickens warm.

I used one a few years ago when I found a tiny abandoned baby possum under the bush in my front yard. The poor thing was almost frozen. I put
it in a box with a few of my old T-shirts, and put an incandescent light bulb
under the box to keep it warm. In the morning, I took it to a wildlife rescue place on the lake-shore here in Chicago. They told me that the baby would
not have survived without the heat overnight. And three months later, they
sent me an email saying that my baby possum had grown big and strong,
and that they took him to the forest preserve and released him in the wild.

That was a rare occasion. We don't actually use light bulbs for heat too
much any more, so it's considered wasted energy in light bulbs. We have
better ways to generate heat now, and for light, we're changing to devices
that run cool and make a lot more light with the same amount of electrical
energy ... like fluorescent tubes, CFL curly bulbs, and LED bulbs. The
incandescent bulb is going away.

But the principal is still the same ... convert electrical energy into light energy.

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3 years ago

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Energy absorbed or hidden when water evaporates

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When changing from liquid to gas (for example when water evaporates), the heat necessary for this to happen is called latent heat of vaporization. The word latent means hidden, because a change in temperature is not perceived during the phase change, even when heat is being added, thus it is said that the heat is hidden or latent.

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Energy absorbed or hidden when water evaporates.

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4 years ago

Two balls with equal masses, m, and equal speed, v, engage in a head on elastic collision. what is the final velocity of each ba

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- Let's start with conservation of momentum. The initial momentum of the total system is the sum of the momenta of the two balls, but we should put a negative sign in front of the velocity of the second ball, because it travels in the opposite direction of ball 1. So ball 1 has mass m and speed v, while ball 2 has mass m and speed -v:
$p_i = p_1-p_2 = mv-mv =0$
So, the final momentum must be zero as well:
$p_f = 0$
Calling v1 and v2 the velocities of the two balls after the collision, the final momentum can be written as
$p_f = mv_1 + mv_2 = 0$
From which
$v_1 = -v_2$

- So now let's apply conservation of kinetic energy. The kinetic energy of each ball is $\frac{1}{2} mv^2$ . Therefore, the total kinetic energy before the collision is
$K_i = \frac{1}{2} mv^2 + \frac{1}{2} mv^2 = mv^2$
the kinetic energy after the collision must be conserved, and therefore must be equal to this value:
$K_f = K_i = mv^2$ (1)
But the final kinetic energy, Kf, is also
$K_f = \frac{1}{2} mv_1^2 + \frac{1}{2}mv_2^2$
Substituting $v_1 = -v_2$ as we found in the conservation of momentum, this becomes
$K_f = mv_2 ^2$
we also said that Kf must be equal to the initial kinetic energy (1), therefore we can write
$mv_2^2 = mv^2$

Therefore, the two final speeds of the balls are
$v_2 = v$
$v_1 = -v_2 = -v$

This means that after the collision, the two balls have same velocity v, but they go in the opposite direction with respect to their original direction.

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