1. Why are aerodynamic drag coefficients of Formula One race cars typically much greater than for ordinary automobiles?
2. What are several things you as an individual can do to reduce energy use in your home? While meeting your transportation needs?
3. How is it possible for the temperature of air trapped in a balloon to increase? To decrease?
4. Why is it incorrect to say that a system contains heat?
5. What examples of heat transfer by conduction, radiation, and convection do you encounter when using a charcoal grill?
6. After running 5 miles on a treadmill at her campus rec center, Ashley observes that the treadmill belt is warm to the touch. Why is the belt warm?
7. When microwaves are beamed onto a tumor during cancer therapy to increase the tumor's temperature, this interaction is considered work and not heat transfer. Why?
8. For good acceleration, what is more important for an automobile engine, horsepower or torque?
9. Experimental molecular motors are reported to exhibit movement upon the absorption of light, thereby achieving a conversion of electromagnetic radiation into motion. Should the incident light be considered work or heat transfer?