Thursday, February 5, 2009

Interanl energy

What is internal energy?

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Internal energy is the total kenetic energy due to motion along with the total potential energy associated with the vibrational and electric energy of atoms within molecules or chrystals. Basically, if you take all of the stuff inside the really small stuff and add it together, you get the internal energy. It's crazy to think how much little stuff goes into making all of the big stuff work correctly

aaron peterson said...

Internal energy is the energy associated with all atomic motions. This is proportional to the substance's temperature. This proportion will only work if there is no phase change.

amanda said...

Internal energy of a thermodynamic system is the total of the kinetic energy due to the motion of molecules and the potential energy associated with the vibrational and electric energy of atoms within molecules or crystals. It includes the energy in all of the chemical bonds, and the energy of the free, conduction electrons in metals. It deals with energy.

streckfuss said...

It is basically the total KE due to motion. It is assicoaited with atomic motion. It deals with some sort of energy ...wierd.

jacob ochsner said...

It is the total kenetic energy due to motion. This includes vibration and electric energy. Take all the stuff inside and add it up and you got it.