College Physics Chapter 7 WORK, ENERGY, AND ENERGY RESOURCES PowerPoint Image Slideshow

1. College Physics Chapter 7 WORK, ENERGY, AND ENERGY RESOURCES PowerPoint Image Slideshow http://openstaxcollege.org/textbooks/college-physics

2. Examples of Work • The work done by the force F on this lawn mower is Fdcosθ . Note that F cosθis the component of the force in the direction of motion. • A person holding a briefcase does no work on it, because there is no motion. No energy is transferred to or from the briefcase. • The person moving the briefcase horizontally at a constant speed does no work on it, and transfers no energy to it. • Work is done on the briefcase by carrying it up stairs at constant speed, because there is necessarily a component of force F in the direction of the motion. Energy is transferred to the briefcase and could in turn be used to do work. • When the briefcase is lowered, energy is transferred out of the briefcase and into an electric generator. Here the work done on the briefcase by the generator is negative, removing energy from the briefcase, because F and d are in opposite directions.

3. Example of Work • A package on a roller belt is pushed horizontally through a distance d .

4. Another Example • The boy does work on the system of the wagon and the child when he pulls them as shown.

5. Cuckoo Clock • The work done to lift the weight is stored in the mass-Earth system as gravitational potential energy. • As the weight moves downward, this gravitational potential energy is transferred to the cuckoo clock.

6. The change in gravitational potential energy (ΔPEg) between points A and B is independent of the path. ΔPEg = mghfor any path between the two points. • Gravity is one of a small class of forces where the work done by or against the force depends only on the starting and ending points, not on the path between them.

7. An Example of Negative Work • The amount of the happy face erased depends on the path taken by the eraser between points A and B, as does the work done against friction. Less work is done and less of the face is erased for the path in (a) than for the path in (b). The force here is friction, and most of the work goes into thermal energy that subsequently leaves the system (the happy face plus the eraser). The energy expended cannot be fully recovered.

8. Is this negative work? • The baseball player slides to a stop in a distance d . In the process, friction removes the player’s kinetic energy by doing an amount of work fdequal to the initial kinetic energy.

9. Energy Conversion • When this woman runs upstairs starting from rest, she converts the chemical energy originally from food into kinetic energy and gravitational potential energy. Her power output depends on how fast she does this.

10. Energy From Food • Energy consumed by humans is converted to work, thermal energy, and stored fat. By far the largest fraction goes to thermal energy, although the fraction varies depending on the type of physical activity.