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Q: Is an unburned lump of coal kinetic or potential?
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When a lump of clay is dropped what energy transformations occur?

potential to kinetic to mechanical When clay lands, kinetic (because object is in motion [newton's first law]) to potential


Is a pencil a nub?

It is, a lump or small piece - a nub of coal or a nub of pencil


What is a lump of energy associated with light called?

A lump of energy associated with light is called a quantum. Another lump of energy associated with light is also called a photon.


Measure the amount of water that was displaced with the clay lump and floating clay shape how do these amounts compare?

Because if you were too get clay lump and the floating clay shape because it's more dense


Does wood energy come from the sun?

There are lots of forms of potential energy. For instance, a piece of wood sitting on the edge of a counter top has potential energy... push it off and it falls. In this case (since you are posting this in the chemistry forum) I am assuming you are talking about chemical energy (another form of potential energy). The answer is yes---and a huge amount of it. Wood is made up principly of water and cellulose. Cellulose is comprised of glucose molecules linked together in long chains. The long chains are held together very well by strong intermolecular forces including many hydrogen bonds. All of the covalent bonds holding the atoms C, H, and O atoms together and the intermolecular forces that hold the cellulose molecules together are very stable---it takes energy to break all these attractive forces and LOTS of it. However, when you burn wood and convert the C into CO2 and the H into H2O you get bonds that are much more stable than the ones in cellulose or the intermolecular forces between the molecules. So there is potential energy in the wood---equal to the chemical energy released when the cellulose is combusted to form CO2 and H2O.

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