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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What do you mean by “perfectly converted”? There is no such real thing as conversion to only one other type of energy, so there’s no way to visualize that. Energy is converted all the time, just not 100% of it. In your car kinetic energy example, it’s converted to sound through screeching tires, through whooshing air, through vibrating engines, and it’s converted to heat through friction between the car and air, and the friction between the tires and the road. There isn’t really any light being created.
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