Physics 25-26 Flashcards

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1
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A set of interconnected parts

A

Systems

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2
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A system that exchanges both matter and energy with its surroundings

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Open System

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3
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A system that can not exchange energy with its surroundings

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Closed System

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4
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A system that can not exchange matter but can exchange energy with it’s surroundings

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Isolated System

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5
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The total energy, including heat, in a system and it’s surroundings stays constant whenever heat is added to the system, it transforms into an equal amount of some other form of energy

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The First Law of Thermodynamics

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6
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heat added to a system =

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Mechanic energy + heat

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7
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Heat always flows natural from hot to cold

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The Second Law of Thermodynamics

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8
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A machine that doesn’t lose any energy heat. The energy input will equal energy output. This is impossible

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Perfect Machine

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9
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A device that converts heat into mechanical energy only some energy can be converted, the rest is expelled as exhaust

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Heat Engine

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10
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A device that transfers mechanical energy into heat

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Heat Pump

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11
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The first machine to use “hidden energy” was

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Hero’s steam engine

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12
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In the 1600s people started

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using coal

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13
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The demand for coal fuelled the need to come up with

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more sophisticated machines

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14
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The gun power engine how does it work

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gas is generated by an explosion inside the engine drove by a piston forward into a cylinder

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15
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Drawback of a gun power engine is

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hazard of explosions, the piston could not be pulled back

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16
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The heat engine how does it work

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Two hollow hemisphere’s are fitted together to create a vacuum by extracting the air through a valve water increases it’s size by 1300x when heated into steam. This would use heat to create steam to do work

17
Q

Patented a steam engine

A

Thomas Newcomen 1712

18
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Made the first heat engine

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Denis Papin 1690

19
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Designed a more efficient steam engine

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James Watt 1763

20
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powder engine

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Chrisitan Igens 1698

21
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Patented an engine fuelled by oil and gas

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Robert Steete 1794

22
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Invented the first internal combustion engine

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Eugene Lebon 1801

23
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Invented first steam powdered pump

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Thomas Very 1698

24
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Improvements made to Lebons design

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1801-1867

25
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designed an internal combustions engine that used gas

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G. Daimier 1883

26
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Cars and combustion engines in mass production

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1890

27
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Developed the 4 stroke internal combustion engine

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N.A Otto and Eugene Lebon 1867

28
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The initial energy source

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energy input

29
Q

The desired energy needed to do

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Useful Energy Output

30
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The work machines are suppose to do

A

Useful Work Output

31
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A measured unit of how effectively a machine converts energy input into useful energy

A

Efficiency

32
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E =

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Useful mechanical energy/ total mechanical energy

33
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Discovered that the transformation of heat into mechanical energy flows from a hot object to a cold object (some heat is loss in the process) also determined the laws of heat efficiency of heat engines

A

Sodi Carnot

34
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He said that heat is another form of energy

A

James Prescott Jules

35
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When an object may store energy because of its position relative to some other object it has the potential to close work

A

Potential Energy

36
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When a force is applied against gravity, resulting in energy being stored. The energy stored in an object at any position above the earth

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Gravitational Potential Energy