An essential educational resource that offers a manual with 20 hands-on experiments to explore and understand the world of sustainable energy. It is ideal for students, teachers, and enthusiasts who wish to deepen their knowledge of clean energy sources and their applications.
Exploring Renewable Energies
Each experiment in the manual is carefully designed to be easy to follow, with step-by-step instructions, lists of necessary materials, and detailed explanations of the underlying scientific concepts.
Topics covered
What is a transformation?
Physical transformations and chemical transformations
Balanced forces and unbalanced forces
The concept of work in everyday language.
The concept of work in physics
Work: a new physical magnitude
-When the force is not parallel to the displacement.
The concept of energy in everyday language.
The concept of energy in physics.
Work and energy
How is energy measured?
The two forms of mechanical energy
Kinetic energy
Gravitational potential energy
Elastic materials and plastic materials
Elastic potential energy
Other forms of energy
The properties of energy
-The transformations of mechanical energy
Unusable energy
The atomic constitution of matter
-Electrical potential energy
The hydraulic circuit
The electrical circuit
-The power
Renewable and non-renewable energy sources
The greatest source of energy: The sun.
How to convert solar energy into electrical energy.
Wind energy
Other forms of alternative energy