Comparison to natural gas, gasoline, kerosene, and human food intake. The Faraday effect, origin of alternating currents, transformers, efficiency of electric power generation. Human electricity, the heart. Mechanisms of heat transfer, conduction, convection, radiation, color temperature, black body radiation, greenhouse effect, solar energy, Newton's law of cooling, energy flows in your house and on earth. A slide show on the Geysers Geothermal Plant.
Energy flows in chemical systems, engines and living systems.
Energy from coal, a discussion with samples of coal representing the grades available in the U. S. 9. Stability and energy flows in nuclear systems. The more stable nuclei are in the middle of the periodic table. Fusion and the fire of the stars, the big bang theory of the early universe, synthesis of the lighter elements, Nuclear fusion on earth. Electric energy from fission, nuclear reactors using uranium-235.