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Chapter 1.5 - Energy: A Fundamental Part of Change
Principles of Chemistry - A Molecular Approach, 2nd Edition by Nivaldo J. Tro
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09/29/2012

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What is energy?
Definition

– the capacity to do work

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What is work?
Definition

– the action of a force through a distance

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What is kinetic energy
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o   the energy associated with an object’s position or composition

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What is thermal energy?
Definition

o   the energy associated with the temperature of an object’s motion

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What is the law of conservation of mass?
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o   the idea that energy is neither created nor destroyed

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What type of energy is thermal energy?
why?
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kinetic

because it arises from the motion of the individual atoms of molecules that make up an object

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What do systems with high potential energy tend to do?
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 Systems with high potential energy tend to change in ways that lower their potential energy

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Objects and systems with high potential energy tend to be ___

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unstable
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what is volume?
Definition
a measure of space
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exa
Definition
E - 10^18
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peta
Definition
P - 10^15
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tera
Definition
T - 10^12
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giga
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G - 10^9
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mega
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M - 10^6
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kilo
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k - 10^3
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deci
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d - 10^-1
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centi
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c - 10^-2
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milli
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m - 10^-3
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micro
Definition
that weird symbol - 10^-6
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nano
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n - 10^-9
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pico

 

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p - 10^-12
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femto
Definition
f - 10^-15
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