Learning Objectives

After completing today's reading, exercises, and the associated homework you should be able to:

• Define the following terms:
  • energy,
  • work, and
  • heat transfer,
• Explain the difference between the various types of energy, including (but not limited to)
  • kinetic energy,
  • gravitational potential energy,
  • internal energy, and
  • elastic (spring) energy, and
  • chemical energy.
• Explain, in words, what each term in the conservation of energy equation means.