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What type of energy is generate by internal combustion engine?
Internal combustion engines generate mechanical energy through the controlled explosion of fuel and air inside the engine's cylinders. This mechanical energy is then converted into kinetic energy to power the vehicle.
What type of energy does a burning log have?
A burning log primarily contains chemical potential energy, which is released as heat and light during combustion.
What are three energy transformation that release heat into the environment?
Burning fossil fuels in a power plant to generate electricity releases heat as a byproduct. Combustion of gasoline in an internal combustion engine in a vehicle also releases heat. Incineration of waste materials in a waste-to-energy facility generates heat.
How can chimical energy be trancedformed into thermal energy?
Since the "law of conservation of energy" states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, all energy is never really destroyed only changed. Chemical energy is converted into thermal energy by certain chemical reactions, like combustion (when something is burned) or when fat is metabolized into heat for the body for example.
What tranafers thermal energy to move pistons that provide power?
In an internal combustion engine, the burning of fuel in the combustion chamber generates high temperature and pressure gases that transfer thermal energy to move the pistons. This movement creates mechanical work that drives the engine and provides power for vehicles or other applications.
What source of thermal energy does an internal combustion engine use?
burning fuel
What type of energy is converted to energ of motion in an internal combustion engine?
In an internal combustion engine, the provided energy is chemical energy. By means of combustion it is transformed into heat energy. This heat energy is transformed in to motion/kinetic energy in an internal combustion engine.
What is the difference between an external combustion engine and internal combustion engine?
An external combustion engine is where something is burning outside of the actual engine and the energy is transmitted to the engine via something. (e.g. boiler creates steam that goes to the engine a.k.a. steam engine) In an internal combustion engine, the burning happens in the actual cylinders of the engine. (e.g. car engine)
What is the difference between internal combustion engine and heat engine?
An internal combustion engine is a type of heat engine that generates mechanical energy by burning fuel inside the engine. A heat engine, on the other hand, is a broader category of engines that convert heat energy into mechanical work through various processes, including combustion, thermodynamic cycles, and heat transfer. In essence, all internal combustion engines are heat engines, but not all heat engines are internal combustion engines.
What is the burning of food into energy called?
combustion
In an internal combustion engine what is used as a source of thermal energy?
combustion
Identify the source of thermal energy in an internal combustion engine?
In an internal combustion engine fuel is burned in a combustion chamber or cylinder inside the engine
An internal combustion engine converts what into mechanical energy?
Thermal Energy
What internal combustion engine converts into mechanical energy?
Thermal Energy
Internal combustion engine uses what kind of energy?
An internal combustion engine converts chemical energy into Thermal Energy, and converts thermal energy into mechanical energy via the pistons, connecting rods, and crankshaft .
What Chemical Reaction releases energy as the burning of paper?
combustion
What is the process of burning a fuel to change chemical energy into thermal energy called?
Combustion generally, but may be referred to by other names (oxidation in some instances). Keep in mind that combustion is the process of burning a fuel to change chemical POTENTIAL energy into thermal energy.
