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Energy Efficiency
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This Lesson provides two different activities that require students to measure energy outputs and inputs to determine the efficiency of conversions and simple systems. One of the activities includes Lego motors and accomplishing work. The other investigates energy for heating water. They learn about by products of energy conversions and how to improve upon efficiency. The teacher can choose to use either of these or both of these. The calculations in the water heating experiment are more complicated than in the Lego motor activity. Thus, the heating activity is suitable for older students, only the Lego motor activity suitable for younger students.

Subject:
Applied Science
Engineering
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson Plan
Author:
Office of Educational Partnerships,
Susan Powers, Jan DeWaters, Nate Barlow, and a number of Clarkson and St. Lawrence University students in the K-12 Project Based Learning Partnership Program
Date Added:
09/18/2014
Information and Entropy, Spring 2008
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CC BY-NC-SA
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Unified theory of information with applications to computing, communications, thermodynamics, and other sciences. Digital signals and streams, codes, compression, noise, and probability. Reversible and irreversible operations. Information in biological systems. Channel capacity. Maximum-entropy formalism. Thermodynamic equilibrium, temperature. The Second Law of Thermodynamics. Quantum computation.

Subject:
Biology
Life Science
Material Type:
Full Course
Textbook
Author:
Lloyd, Seth
Date Added:
01/01/2008
Thermodynamics of Biomolecular Systems, Fall 2005
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This subject deals primarily with equilibrium properties of macroscopic and microscopic systems, basic thermodynamics, chemical equilibrium of reactions in gas and solution phase, and macromolecular interactions.

Subject:
Physical Science
Physics
Material Type:
Full Course
Textbook
Author:
Hamad-Schifferli, Kim
Date Added:
01/01/2005