Energy transfer facts for kids

In physics, energy transfer is when energy is moved from one place to another. Energy cannot be made or destroyed. However, it can be transferred and it can change from one form of energy to another form of energy.

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  In a typical lightning strike, 500 megajoules of electric potential energy is converted into the same amount of energy in other forms, mostly light energy, sound energy and thermal energy.

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  Thomas Young, the first person to use the term "energy" in the modern sense.

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  Joule's apparatus for measuring the mechanical equivalent of heat. A descending weight attached to a string causes a paddle immersed in water to rotate.

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  A turbo generator transforms the energy of pressurised steam into electrical energy