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: Received: 8 January 2024 / Approved: 9 January 2024 / Online: 9 January 2024 (04:51:22 CET)
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Mehling, H. Development of a Consistent Understanding of Energy, Energy Conservation, and Derivation of a Systematic Set of Energy Forms. Preprints2024, 2024010690. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202401.0690.v1
Mehling, H. Development of a Consistent Understanding of Energy, Energy Conservation, and Derivation of a Systematic Set of Energy Forms. Preprints 2024, 2024010690. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202401.0690.v1
Mehling, H. Development of a Consistent Understanding of Energy, Energy Conservation, and Derivation of a Systematic Set of Energy Forms. Preprints2024, 2024010690. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202401.0690.v1
APA Style
Mehling, H. (2024). Development of a Consistent Understanding of Energy, Energy Conservation, and Derivation of a Systematic Set of Energy Forms. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202401.0690.v1
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Mehling, H. 2024 "Development of a Consistent Understanding of Energy, Energy Conservation, and Derivation of a Systematic Set of Energy Forms" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202401.0690.v1
Abstract
“Energy” is probably the most important term in science and technology. The reason is energy can be converted while it is overall conserved, and thereby correlates changes of a wide variety. Despite its successful use in many areas over more than a century, an analysis of current literature shows that definitions of what energy is and explanations why it is conserved are inconsistent. With regard to energy forms not even a definition was found, and examples given are often wrong. Looking at two interacting objects in the most simple situations, with energy conservation but without conversion, a consistent understanding of energy and its conservation can be derived. Based on it, the systematic set of energy forms with a clear definition of each is then presented.
Keywords
energy; definition; explanation; energy conservation; energy form; interaction
Subject
Physical Sciences, Theoretical Physics
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