Biology 1202B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Exothermic Reaction, Closed System, Kinetic Energy

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Chemical gradient, gravity, friction or moving a chemical reaction towards completion. We can define energy as the capacity to do work. The study of energy in living systems (environments) and the organisms (plants and animals) utilize it. Energy possessed by an object because it is in motion. Energy can be transformed between one form and another. Energy and its transformation we must always consider the system. The earth as a system, everything else as its surroundings. Energy cannot be created nor destroyed, but only converted to other forms. The amount of energy in the universe is constant. When energy is transformed from one form to another, some of the energy is lost. Much of the energy is lost in the form of heat. Unusable energy increases the disorder (entropy) in the universe. The total disorder of a system and its surroundings always increase. A certain % of the energy is lost (entropy)

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