Mr Moffat's P1a Energy Transfers

Physics
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Front Describe the energy transfer taking place when a car's brakes stop a car?
Back The frictional force of the car's brakes transfers energy from the kinetic energy store to the thermal energy store of the brakes and the surroundings. Calculate using Ek = 0.5 x m x v2 of car before and Ek = 0 when its stopped. 
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Front If you didn't know the energy inputs and outputs of a device, how else might you calculate efficiency?
Back Useful power output ÷ total power input
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Front Describe how you would calculate the energy transfer as a ball goes up in the air and stops.
Back A ball slows down, as it rises in the air, as energy transfers from kinetic energy store to gravitational potential energy store (calculate using Ek at start = Ep at end; Ep = mgh)
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