EASY
Lower Secondary Stage 7
IMPORTANT
Earn 100

Describe the energy transfers involved in an electric car. What type of energy is stored by the battery? What type of energy is used to get the car moving? What type of energy does the car have when it is moving?

Important Questions on Energy

MEDIUM
Lower Secondary Stage 7
IMPORTANT

If a pendulum swings in a vacuum it might swing forever. In air, the swings become gradually shorter. Suggest where some of the energy may have gone.  Remember, the conservation principle means that it cannot have been lost altogether.

MEDIUM
Lower Secondary Stage 7
IMPORTANT
In an electric lamp, some energy is wasted. What does the conservation of energy tell us about the total of useful energy and wasted energy?
MEDIUM
Lower Secondary Stage 7
IMPORTANT
A car burns fuel with an energy value of 85000 J68000 J of this is output from the engine as wasted heat energy and sound energy. Calculate how much useful energy is left for moving the car.
MEDIUM
Lower Secondary Stage 7
IMPORTANT

For the fluorescent light bulb shown in figure, calculate the percentage of the input energy that is transferred usefully.

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MEDIUM
Lower Secondary Stage 7
IMPORTANT

An old-fashioned filament lamp wastes 95% of the energy supplied to it. Draw an energy transfer (Sankey) diagram for it. 

MEDIUM
Lower Secondary Stage 7
IMPORTANT
A car burns fuel with an energy value of 85000 J . 68000 J of this is output from the engine as wasted as heat energy. What percentage of the chemical fuel energy used by the car that will eventually end up as thermal energy?
EASY
Lower Secondary Stage 7
IMPORTANT
Explain how you could use electricity from solar panels, together with other renewable energy sources, to get the electrical energy you need at any time.
MEDIUM
Lower Secondary Stage 7
IMPORTANT
Name four sources of chemical energy that can be used in thermal power stations.