Transcription of Chapter 2 CONCEPT OF ENERGY
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Chapter 2 CONCEPT OF ENERGY
Chapter 2 CONCEPT OF ENERGYC entre Daily Times8/11/96 Copyright: Mort Walker. Reproduced with permission of the 2 Beetle Bailey is not the only one who wants to save ENERGY . ENERGY conservation andefficiency is on many people's minds lately, especially when ENERGY becomes ENERGY conservation and modern ENERGY -guzzling society compatible? To begin toanswer this question, we must first define ENERGY ( Chapter 2 and 3) and then see what wemean by ENERGY efficiency ( Chapter 3 and 4).Qualitative Definition of EnergyMost dictionaries define ENERGY as the capacity to do work. This implies that ENERGY is amore abstract CONCEPT than work. The definition is correct, of course, but it is is certainly an important manifestation of ENERGY ; indeed, the Industrial Revolutionwent into full swing in late eighteenth century when breakthroughs were achieved inconverting other forms of ENERGY into work.
There is some irony in these historical developments: just before major social upheavals were to spread throughout most of Europe in the revolutions of 1848, the collective efforts of the European scientific community brought about one of the major intellectual syntheses of all time. Energy in Its Various Forms: First approximation Work.
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