EVSC 1080 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Energy
21 May 2016
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Unreliable science is science that is presented as reliable without undergoing the rigors of widespread peer review, or is discarded as a result of peer review. Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, and nitrogen make up about 96% of body weight. Organic compounds contain at least two carbon atoms combined with atoms of one or more other elements. Energy quality is a measure of the capacity of a type of energy to do useful work. High- quality energy has a great capacity to do useful work, because it is concentrated. Low- quality energy is so dispersed that it has little capacity to do work. The first law of thermodynamics (also the law of conservation of energy) - whenever energy is converted from one form to another in a physical or chemical change, no energy is created or destroyed.
