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These two reactions thus form the ozone–oxygen cycle, wherein the chemical energy released by ozone creation becomes molecular kinetic energy. The net result of the cycle is the conversion of penetrating UV-B light into heat, without any net loss of ozone.
Rough plot of Earth's atmospheric transmittance (or opacity) to various wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation, including visible light. Understanding and measuring the absorption of electromagnetic radiation has a variety of applications. In radio propagation, it is represented in non-line-of-sight propagation.
Kinetic energy provided by planetary rotation; An internal energy source to drive convective motions within the fluid. [11] In the case of the Earth, the magnetic field is induced and constantly maintained by the convection of liquid iron in the outer core. A requirement for the induction of field is a rotating fluid.
The maximum temperature at the turbine is a function of the energy source; and the minimum temperature at the inlet is a function of the surrounding environment's ability to absorb waste heat. For many practical reasons, coal plants generally extract about 35% of the heat energy from the coal, the rest is ultimately dumped into the cooling ...
A kinetic-energy absorbing medium, sometimes called a crash pit or runaway truck ramp; A shock absorber, a device to dampen spring rebound by expending work by forcing a fluid through ports, and so converting the mechanical energy to heat; In the context of Fall arrest, an energy absorber is a device that limits the energy of a falling body
A turbulent flow is characterized by a hierarchy of scales through which the energy cascade takes place. Dissipation of kinetic energy takes place at scales of the order of Kolmogorov length η, while the input of energy into the cascade comes from the decay of the large scales, of order L. These two scales at the extremes of the cascade can ...
When light quanta deliver more than this amount of energy to an individual electron, the electron may be emitted into free space with excess (kinetic) energy that is higher than the electron's binding energy. The distribution of kinetic energies thus reflects the distribution of the binding energies of the electrons in the atomic, molecular or ...
For two pairwise interacting point particles, the gravitational potential energy is the work that an outside agent must do in order to quasi-statically bring the masses together (which is therefore, exactly opposite the work done by the gravitational field on the masses): = = where is the displacement vector of the mass, is gravitational force acting on it and denotes scalar product.