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This document discusses energy efficiency and heat transfer. It defines efficiency as useful energy output divided by total energy input. It provides an example where a desk lamp has an input of 100J per second but only outputs 5J per second, giving it an efficiency of 5%. The document also discusses renewable and non-renewable energy sources, listing examples like fossil fuels, nuclear, wind, biofuels, and solar energy. It explains how each source captures and converts different forms of energy for useful applications.
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- 1. 20 October 2010 2.5 Efficiency What are the three types of heat transfer. Which states of matter do they work in?
- 2. Aims • Understand the efficiency of energy transformations • Calculate efficiency from given data
- 4. Efficiency • Often a lot of the energy that goes into a system is wasted, mainly as heat • To save energy and money, manufacturers are developing appliances that make better use of energy and therefore waste less • We describe these as energy efficient
- 5. Efficiency equation useful energy output efficiency (%) (100%) total energy input
- 6. Worked example • The energy input per second to a desk lamp with a standard tungsten filament is 100 J and the output is 5 J. Energy expressed as joules per second is the power, which has the unit of watts (W). How efficient is the lamp?
- 7. useful energy output efficiency (%) (100%) total energy input 5J 100% 100J 5%
- 8. Activity A: Write down the ways in which a petrol engine wastes energy
- 9. Activity B: what is the efficiency of a lamp if the useful energy given out each second is 60 J with 100 J of energy put it.
- 10. Saving our worlds resources • Our sources of energy can be separated into renewable and non-renewable • Renewable can be replaced, non-renewable cannot.
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