Showing posts with label energy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label energy. Show all posts

Sunday, January 1, 2012

The Energy Conservation Act

Energy conservation law States that energy can neither be created nor destroyed. Energy can only be conserved. Consider throwing a upwards. What are the forces acting on the ball? One is the weight of the ball can be pulled down. The next is the force behind rising on the balloon provided when the ball leaves the hand.

How far the ball travels upward? Answering this question can be easily to the law of conservation of energy. When the ball is thrown energy there is due to its speed and kinetic energy. His movement upwards the ball has potential energy and kinetic energy. Speed or velocity of the ball will be maximum when it leaves the hand and will be zero when it reaches the maximum height. Anytime speed reduce slowly (this is called as a delay versus acceleration where the veolocity increases continuously). The maximum height traveled by ball then can be determined by equating the potential energy of the destination (here kinetic energy is equal to 0, the ball is at rest), kinetic energy at the beginning of the query (here the potential energy is equal to 0).

Without the force of gravity, we would not drawn down for our planet and therefore we will be always floating upwards. The LCE can be used to make substantial diversions even the object lifted upwards does not in the vertical direction (or goes into a parabolic trajectory).

Imagine a marble is just rolling down a slope and is made to move in a circular ring, energy is conserved in this case as well. Can use the energy conservation act to determine the maximum time that the marble will be inside the circular ring.

How are we able to walk? We walk by the force of friction between foot and land surface. If there was no friction, we would be unable to stop walking. A ball which is rolling on stops floor at any time due to friction between the surface of land and the ball.

Thursday, November 3, 2011

You say free energy? For your home? Easy instructions on how to make work for Pennies!

Nikola, died in New York City in 1943 with almost no money in his name. Not because he could not make work the sound idea, but because he wasn't allowed to. In fact, it was not until the 1960s for him to be recognized for his work in engineering. Think if ideas were not remarkable, why in the world anyone would market a company car with this name. Long ago there was this scientist, engineer or it has been a pioneer, or simply a "mad scientist". Most of you have heard of the new fast and elegant new electric car called the Tesla. Similarly, the name car was given in honour of the rather eccentric man, a man who was before its time, Nicola Tesla. Born in Croatia, Eastern Europe to be exact in 1856-1943, he has developed tons of ideas that change the type of man forever. His ideas were how turbines operate at Niagara Falls, to create electricity. Technically, he invented wireless electricity, radio, magnetic induction, among a plethora of other discoveries of savings and energy-producing. In addition, we wouldn't TV today, Radars and its patents have been used to make the first transatlantic wireless communication.

You how to use its methods for yourself. There is a simple way to create free electricity to power your cell phone for connection with simple pieces of your local hardware store your fees of $2.00. Using these techniques will help you build a still larger feed throughout the House. Thinking, how much pay you for electricity month last $200, $400, $1000. Think about what you could do with some of the savings you get electricity which wouldn't you anything. I don't know a lot of things you could do with this additional expenditure went!

In case you didn't know, Nikola Tesla was nicknamed "Crazy man", and it is only because he was prevented by large companies, the Rockefeller world at this time refused for those inventions to make public as his fortune in oil would lessen the tubes. Don't forget to come back then, it was really about how much money you have to do things, or rather, make disappear.

Nikola, died in New York City in 1943 with almost no money in his name. Not because he could not make work the sound idea, but because he wasn't allowed to. In fact, it was not until the 1960s for him to be recognized for his work in engineering. Think if ideas were not remarkable, why in the world anyone would market a company car with this name.

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Friday, October 21, 2011

Conservation of mechanical energy to education

Now, I go to the conservation of mechanical energy. Again, I'll show you how I explain the solutions of the physical problem in terms of fundamental principles. As always, the statement of principles will be the first line of the solution to the problem. The problem that I have chosen to illustrate the method requires the application of the second law of Newton and mechanical energy conservation.

Notation I used of this series described in the preceding articles, specifically "kinematics of teaching", "Teaching the second law of Newton" and "the problems of labour-power."

Problem. A small box of mass m starts rest and sliding down the surface friction of a cylinder of RADIUS r-free show box leaves the surface when the angle between the line of radiial in the box and the vertical axis is th = arccos(2/3).

Analysis. The box is just affected the frictionless cylindrical surface, exercising a normal force outwards n on it. The only other force on the box is its weight MG. Box moves on a circular path, so we apply Newton's second law in radial direction (positive outward). With the help of a free body diagram, we have

... Newton's second law

... Sum (fr) = MAr

...-MGcos (th) + N = M(-V**2), r.

Since the cylindrical surface can only push (he can not draw), box cannot remain on the surface, unless force normal n is greater than zero. As a result, box leaves the surface at the point where N = 0. Since the last equation corresponds to

... cos (th) = (V * 2) / RG.

But this tells us much if we do not know the speed v box, we are going to see what we can learn from the application of the conservation of mechanical energy. We use a framework co-ordinated by inertia with axis y vertical and the origin at the center of the circular cylinder. Assimilate us mechanical energy box at the top of the bottle and the time it leaves the cylinder. The initial position of the box is Yi = R, its muzzle velocity is Vi = 0, its final position is Yu = Rcos (th) and its final speed is given = V, speed when he leaves the surface. Now with the conservation of mechanical energy.

... Mechanical energy conservation

... (IVM * 2) / 2 + MGYi = (MVu * 2) / 2 + MGYu

... (M0 * 2) / 2 + MGR = (MV * 2) / 2 + MGRcos (th);

therefore... 2 * V = 2 GR (1 - cos (th)).

Finally, connect this result in cos equation (th) that we found earlier, we

... cos (th) = 2 GR (1 - cos (th)) /RG = 2 - 2cos (th);

and... Th = arccos(2/3).

Dr. William Moebs is physical retired professor who has taught at both universities: Indiana - Purdue Fort Wayne and Loyola Marymount University. You can see hundreds of examples illustrating how stressed the fundamental principles by visiting physical support.

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Saturday, May 7, 2011

Conservation of mechanical energy and rolling motion

In this article, I show how it is easy to solve the problems of rotational motion of fundamentals. It is a continuation of the last two articles on rolling motion. The notation used is summarized in section "teaching dynamic rotation. As usual, I describe the method in terms of an example.


Problem. A solid ball of mass m and radius r is rolling through a horizontal speed v surface when it encounters an inclined at an angle th. Distance d along the inclined ball moves to stop and go back down? Assume that the ball moves without dragging?


Analysis. Since the ball moves without dragging, mechanical energy is conserved. We will use a frame of reference which the origin is a distance r above at the bottom of the slope. This is to centre the ball as it starts up the ramp, SW = 0 Yi. When assimilate us the mechanical energy of the ball at the bottom of the slope (where Yi = 0 and Vi = V) and to the point where it stops (Yu = h and Vu = 0), we


Mechanical energy conservation


Mechanical energy = mechanical energy final initials


M(VI**2)/2 Icm(Wi**2)/2 + MGYi = M(Vu**2)/2 Icm(Wu**2)/2 + MGYu


M(V**2)/2 + + MG (0) Icm(W**2)/2 = M(0**2)/2 Icm(0**2)/2 + MGH;


where h is the vertical displacement of the ball stops on the slope at the moment. If d is the distance the ball moves along the slope h = d sin (th). This insertion with W = V/R and Icm = 2 M(R**2)/5 in energy equation, we find, after some simplification, the ball moves the slope distance


d = 7 (V * 2) / (10Gsin (th))


to rotate and position downwards.


This solution of the problem is exceptionally easy. Once again the same message: start all solutions of problem with a fundamental principle. When you do, your ability to solve problems is greatly improved.


Dr. William Moebs is physical retired professor who has taught at both universities: Indiana - Purdue Fort Wayne and Loyola Marymount University. You can see hundreds of examples illustrating how stressed the fundamental principles by visiting physical support.


 

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Fuel and energy of the wind, water and Sun

Everyone in this world is aware of the fact that three of the most basic of renewable energy sources are wind, water and sunlight that they are naturally abundant and most importantly, they are found free throughout the planet. Apart from this abundance, we are still not using the best possible way.

We use everyday energy and energy has become one of the most important necessities of our modern everyday life. We use always fossil fuels as our primary source of energy, but, like most of us realize, our world has limited fossil fuel remaining. In the near future the day will come where our world is going to run out of fossil fuels, which took years to create within our Earth's crust.

Fossil as main energy source is not as good for our health and our world. Carbon by fossil fuel combustion are gradually polluting our planet and eventually causing global warming. We are polluting the air we breathe is a major threat to humanity. Thus y an offset this problem? Yes, if we can deploy a method for exploiting alternative energy sources such as wind, sunlight, etc. and start using them in our daily lives so that we can eliminate pollution-producing fossil fuels for every day of our lives!

With the help of renewable energy sources is not new and people used these resources for many years. But the scale necessary to solve the problems of the planet is an obstacle to their implementation. The challenge is to develop a new way to make effective use of our own energy resources. If we want to see them implemented in industry, we need several challenges. They must be economic production, economic of implements and overall increase in operating profits of the company match.

Wind energy can be used for the production of electricity that is collected through the use of large wind turbines. This allows smaller montages and electricity are available even in remote locations where normal distribution networks are perhaps not yet reached. Using such a powerful and readily available energy source could mean much prosperity and growth of small communities remote as well as larger cities and industrial sites.

Hydroelectricity is literally electricity from water is one of the most reliable forms of renewable energy available currently. Energy can be obtained directly from the bed without cause greenhouse effects or global warming. Water electricity is in production to a variety of dams around the world. Only real pollution is in the initial configuration of infrastructure and transport or distribution of power resulting.

Solar energy is another form of energy, which is inexpensive and can be easily used anywhere in the world without much installation costs. Its obvious limitation is, of course, it cannot be used in the light of day, and when the sky is free from clouds.

Two most important factors of consideration of renewable energy sources are their scalability and durability. Renewable energy sources are considered as sustainable if they are naturally abundant and renewable. Scalability to consider whether they can be setup anywhere in the world and whether their power resulting can easily or sustainable distributed to end-users. Barriers is a bad option of renewable energy sources are dealt with quickly and then overcome as the world enters the final phase of its dependence on fossil fuels.