Victorian Curriculum Code – VCSSU132 (Thermodynamics)

Content description

Energy flow in Earth’s atmosphere can be explained by the processes of heat transfer

Elaborations

• recognising that the Law of Conservation of Energy explains that total energy is maintained in energy transfers and transformations

• recognising that in energy transfers and transformations, a number of steps can occur and the system is not 100% efficient so that usable energy is reduced

• comparing energy changes in physical events, for example, car crashes, the motion of pendulums, lifting and dropping