Energy can be transferred from one form to another, but I’m not sure how to visualize what it looks like when this happens. For example, what would the kinetic energy of a moving car look like if all the energy (perfectly converted) was heat, sound, or light?
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A car traveling at 30mph has about 130 kilojoules.
That’s enough heat to raise about a pound of water up to boiling. So… Not even enough to cook noodles.
Temperature is usually a REMARKABLE amount of energy.
Sound and light are hard to compare. That’d equal a very dangerous blinding laser running for 35 hours.
In gasoline, chemical potential, that’s 2.7 grams, or a less than a shot.
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