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The term EFFICIENCY is defined as useful work, divided by total energy expenditure.
It is a means of saying how much energy is useful and wasted. Has the appliance represented on the diagram got a high or low efficiency; i.e, is there a larger proportion of useful energy compared to that of wasted energy, making the it more efficient. Can you work out the efficiency as a percentage using your knowledge of the equation, Efficieny = useful energy out/ total energy in?
If the useful energy output of a system is equal to the energy input, the following calculation can be done:Efficiency = (Useful energy out) / (Energy In)Efficiency = 1Efficiency = 100%Therefore, the machine you describe does have an efficiency value, which is equal to 100%. Very few situations like this exist though, unfortunately.
70% efficient Take: Useful work out --------------------- X 100 = efficiency Work in
The efficiency of a machine is found by dividing the amount of work done by a machine by the amount of energy used by a machine. The answer is then multiplied by 100 to give a percentage.
The percentage of energy converted into useful work is called the EFFICIENCY.
The term EFFICIENCY is defined as useful work, divided by total energy expenditure.
efficiencyThe ratio of useful energy to total input energy is called efficiency. It refers to the percentage of the work input that is converted to work output.
That is called efficiency. An efficiency of 1 (or 100%) means that all the energy is converted into useful work.That is called efficiency. An efficiency of 1 (or 100%) means that all the energy is converted into useful work.That is called efficiency. An efficiency of 1 (or 100%) means that all the energy is converted into useful work.That is called efficiency. An efficiency of 1 (or 100%) means that all the energy is converted into useful work.
It is a means of saying how much energy is useful and wasted. Has the appliance represented on the diagram got a high or low efficiency; i.e, is there a larger proportion of useful energy compared to that of wasted energy, making the it more efficient. Can you work out the efficiency as a percentage using your knowledge of the equation, Efficieny = useful energy out/ total energy in?
The idea is to divide the useful work by the input energy.
If the useful energy output of a system is equal to the energy input, the following calculation can be done:Efficiency = (Useful energy out) / (Energy In)Efficiency = 1Efficiency = 100%Therefore, the machine you describe does have an efficiency value, which is equal to 100%. Very few situations like this exist though, unfortunately.
70% efficient Take: Useful work out --------------------- X 100 = efficiency Work in
Energy is the potential to do some work. If there is work done on a system, this work done is stored as potential energy of the system. If the system in motion, it should have kinetic energy. Hence total energy of the system PE+KE
Free energy
Entropy is a measure of the disorder or randomness in a system. In thermodynamics, it is a state function that quantifies the amount of energy in a system that is unavailable to do work. As entropy increases, the amount of useful energy available decreases, leading to a more disordered state in the system.
The purpose is to determine the available energy. Some of the energy in any system is useless - can't be converted into useful work.