Faits
By JackDazey
The purpose of this article is clearly to spark thought. By
that I mean to make a connection in all that you know that is around you and
separate you. This will be the first in a series of articles that I would write
to bring you into the “know”. Through our lives we acquire facts and knowledge
through our studies and research. Never knowing how these facts are intertwined
in everyday life and use. Yes through years of scientific research we draw new
conclusions sometimes negating information we previously discovered. There are
many things that rarely change and what I would like to focus on are the Laws that
govern our science and how it relates to each and one of us to help us become
better at comprehending what we learn and to read between the lines.
The Law of Energy
One of the simplest and first facts we learn in high school
and relearn in college is the
“Law of Energy”. This
states that energy is not created nor destroyed it is only transferred.
Also Energy is the ability to do work.
Energy by definition is the ability to do work. Energy is also measured in the form of heat. A
type of this measurement can be in the form of calories. The heat from work is
measured in Kelvin, Celsius of Fahrenheit. An example of this is the sun in the
center of our solar system. It is measured in degrees. The sun provides for us
energy. That energy is transferred to our planet in the form of heat in solar
radiation.
A conventional cooking oven produces heat. That heat is
transferred to what ever is absorbing it in the oven, perhaps a thanksgiving
turkey. It goes in the oven cold, you turn the oven on to 375 degrees for 5
hours and your turkey is cooked and piping hot. The turkey has been transferred
energy to it in the form of heat. You can put a thermometer in a turkey a
measure its heat to know that it is done.
When we are in lab class we take a flask and put it on a Bunsen
burner to create change to cause a chemical reaction and change the composition
of the ingredients of our chemistry equation.
When we are apply heat or energy to water, we then transform
that water from the liquid state into a gas vapor. Water changes into a gas
when it reaches a temperature of 212 degrees Fahrenheit.
Solar panels that we use to heat houses absorb the radiation
from the Sun and store it for later use by transferring it to plumbing in our
homes to create hot water from stored energy.
The lighting that is generated from a thundering sky has
energy. That energy and power is transferred to the destination of the strike
raising the temperature, heating and burning what it touches.
Transfer from energy gains or energy sinks.
Energy is inherent in any thing around us. On the smallest
scale you have molecules that are in constant motion for most of the time. On a
deeper scale you have the movement of electrons. Only when things are at
absolute zero do you have minimal movement. Absolute zero would mean that it is
“frozen”
You and I have energy agree? We have a body heat that is
measured at around 98.8 degrees for the norm. We have the ability to do work. What
does this mean? For starters our body heat is measure in calories. This is the
output and input of energy in the form of food that we eat and expel through
exercise. When we eat a hamburger, that hamburger may be 400 calories. We eat the
burger and those calories are now within our body as food energy providing us
the ability to do work. We go out side, take a walk or run and burn off those
calories by doing work in the form of exercise. Our bodies become heated raising
our body temperature. We then produce and give off energy.
We transfer energy to one another when we hug, or pass on a
static surge from rubbing on carpets with rubber shoes. When we say that some
one has shock us because they discharge built up energy and it is release to us
at the touch.
Would the law of energy apply to all living things? We have
energy, so this means that the energy within us is not destroyed. We received
our initial energy as transference from our birth mother. Every thing our
mothers ate was transferred to us to develop into healthy infants.
Just to end with a thought until my next article. If energy
is nor created or destroyed, and we have energy within us that is evident and
measureable, then the energy in us is not created or destroyed as well. Then it
must be transferred…..(to be continued)
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