Energy Capacity to do work Kinetic Energy possessed by an object because it is in motion Potential/Chemical Potential Stored energy: the energy an object has because of its location or chemical structure Study of energy and its transformations System Object being studied Three Types Isolated System Does not exchanged matter or energy with surroundings Ex.…
The First Law of Thermodynamics: This is the law of conservation of energy. The total amount of energy in the universe is constant. Energy cannot be created nor destroyed. We have seen that energy can be transferred from a system to its surroundings and vice versa. During these processes no energy is created nor destroyed…
Entropy, S, is the tendency towards randomness or disorder in a system – an ordered arrangement of particles has a lower entropy/disorder than the same number of particles in random arrangements Entropy becomes more disordered with: 1.) ^ Temperature – more chaotic motion 2.) ^ Volume of gases 3.) change in phys. State A change…