ENERGY AND EQUILIBRIA

Question 1

What is energy?

Answer 1

It is the ability to do work. This ability is goverened by the laws of thermodynamics.

Question 2

First Law of Thermodynamics

Answer 2

Energy can’t be created or destroyed it can only be transformed.

Question 3

Second Law of Thermodynamics

Answer 3

The entropy of a system grows overtime.

Question 4

What is Positive Feedback?

Answer 4

Enhance change in a system. they drive a ssytem away from its equilibrium and make it more unstable.

Question 5

What is Negative Feedback?

Answer 5

Resist change in a system and draws the system back to its equilibrium. They keep the system stable.

Question 6

What is resilience?

Answer 6

It is the ability of a system to go back to its equilibrium after disturbance. The more resistant to disturbance the more resilient.
Low reilience makes the system enter a new state= new equilibrium.

Question 7

What are tipping points?

Answer 7

They are a critical threshold where even a small change can cause a significant disturbance to the system and cause a large response. Positive feedbacks drive systems to tipping points.

Question 8

What is equilibrium?

Answer 8

A state of balance among the components in a system.