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He will not curb his instinctual desires but release the energy within him that makes him feel truly and fully alive, even if it is only for this brief moment before the apocalypse of annihilation explodes on earth.
The end result of antimatter meeting matter is a release of energy proportional to the mass as the mass-energy equivalence equation, E = mc < sup > 2 </ sup > shows.
Depending on the elasticity of the arrow, some of the energy is also absorbed by compressing the arrow, primarily because the release of the bowstring is rarely in line with the arrow shaft, causing it to flex out to one side.
When a core electron is removed, leaving a vacancy, an electron from a higher energy level may fall into the vacancy, resulting in a release of energy.
Concepts such as the stress concentration factor and the strain energy release rate can be used to predict failure.
A critical energy release rate can be derived from the crack length during testing.
Reactions with chalcogens are highly exothermic ( release energy ); the reaction with oxygen or air occurs at room temperature, and therefore barium is stored under oil or inert gas atmosphere.
Carbon may also burn vigorously and brightly in the presence of air at high temperatures, as in the Windscale fire, which was caused by sudden release of stored Wigner energy in the graphite core.
While insulation reduces energy loss through the building envelope, thermal mass uses walls to store and release energy.
This fact allowed for later energy release which leads to intermediate-sized element formation in our time.
Reactions can proceed by themselves if they are exergonic, that is if they release energy.
They can then release this energy by breaking chemical bonds, thereby producing radicals.
Although a longbow achieves comparable accuracy and faster shooting rate than an average crossbow, crossbows release more kinetic energy and can be used effectively after a week of training, while a comparable single-shot skill with a longbow takes years of strength training to overcome the draw strength of the longbow, as well as years of practice needed to use it with skill.
Chain reactions are one way in which systems which are in thermodynamic non-equilibrium can release energy or increase entropy in order to reach a state of higher entropy.
For example, a system may not be able to reach a lower energy state by releasing energy into the environment, because it is hindered in some way from taking the path that will result in the energy release.
If a reaction results in a small energy release making way for more energy releases in an expanding chain, then the system will typically collapse explosively until much or all of the stored energy has been released.
This is a result of stored gravitational potential energy seeking a path of release over friction.
Acceleration of these free electrons in a strong electric field causes them to gain energy, and when they impact other atoms, the energy causes release of new free electrons and ions ( ionization ), which fuels the same process.

energy and includes
The conservation of momentum equations are often called the Navier-Stokes equations, while others use the term for the system that includes conversation of mass, conservation of momentum, and conservation of energy.
The function of carbohydrates includes energy storage and providing structure.
In an " extended model " which includes hot dark matter in the form of neutrinos, then if the " physical baryon density " Ω < sub > b </ sub > h < sup > 2 </ sup > is estimated at about 0. 023 ( this is different from the ' baryon density ' Ω < sub > b </ sub > expressed as a fraction of the total matter / energy density, which as noted above is about 0. 046 ), and the corresponding cold dark matter density Ω < sub > c </ sub > h < sup > 2 </ sup > is about 0. 11, the corresponding neutrino density Ω < sub > v </ sub > h < sup > 2 </ sup > is estimated to be less than 0. 0062.
The human caused occurrences of electric current includes the flow of conduction electrons in metal wires, such as the overhead power lines that deliver electrical energy across long distances and the smaller wires within electrical and electronic equipment.
Electromagnetic radiation composed of photons that carry minimum-ionization energy, or more, ( which includes the entire spectrum with shorter wavelengths ), is therefore termed ionizing radiation.
It includes the internal energy, which is the energy required to create a system, and the amount of energy required to make room for it by displacing its environment and establishing its volume and pressure.
This internal energy also includes the energy required for activation and the breaking of bonded compounds into gaseous species.
( Any theory that includes conservation of energy and mass – energy equivalence must include gravitational redshift.
Although forests are classified primarily by trees, the concept of a forest ecosystem includes additional species ( such as smaller plants, fungi, bacteria, and animals ) as well as physical and chemical processes such as energy flow and nutrient cycling.
In special relativity, mass turns out to be part of a more general quantity called the energy – momentum tensor, which includes both energy and momentum densities as well as stress ( that is, pressure and shear ).
For different situations and / or number of particles, the Hamiltonian is different since it includes the sum of kinetic energies of the particles, and the potential energy function corresponding to the situation.
That endeavor left the newly independent Republic of Kazakhstan a mixed legacy: a population that includes nearly as many Russians as Kazakhs ; the presence of a dominating class of Russian technocrats, who are necessary to economic progress but ethnically unassimilated ; and a well-developed energy industry, based mainly on coal and oil, whose efficiency is inhibited by major infrastructural deficiencies.
Eugene Odum, a founder of ecology, stated: " Any unit that includes all of the organisms ( ie: the " community ") in a given area interacting with the physical environment so that a flow of energy leads to clearly defined trophic structure, biotic diversity, and material cycles ( i. e.: exchange of materials between living and nonliving parts ) within the system is an ecosystem.
The ontology of physicalism ultimately includes whatever is described by physics — not just matter but energy, space, time, physical forces, structure, physical processes, information, state, etc.
The subject commonly includes calculations of such quantities as heat capacity, heat of combustion, heat of formation, enthalpy, entropy, free energy, and calories.
The most common setup to minimize charging effects includes use of a glancing angle (~ 10 °) electron beam and a carefully tuned bombarding energy ( between 1. 5 keV and 3 keV ).
Other research performed at the lab includes developing cheaper, cleaner bio-fuels and advancing scientific understanding around renewable energy.
energy research facility that includes the Spallation Neutron Source and High Flux Isotope Reactor.
There is another important class of energy commodities which includes electricity, gas, coal and oil.
Action origami includes origami that flies, requires inflation to complete, or, when complete, uses the kinetic energy of a person's hands, applied at a certain region on the model, to move another flap or limb.

energy and total
The accuracy of measuring the total electrical energy entering an exploding wire during a few microseconds was verified when two independent types of comparison with the heat energy produced had an uncertainty of less than 2 percent.
It was shown that by proper anode design the net energy loss of the arc to the anode could be reduced to approximately 15% of the total arc energy.
In plasma generators as currently commercially available for industrial use or as high temperature research tools often more than 50% of the total energy input is being transferred to the cooling medium of the anode.
If Af is the change per unit volume in Gibbs function caused by the shear field at constant P and T, and **yr is the density of the fluid, then the total potential energy of the system above the reference height is Af.
The total volume of the system above the reference height is Af, and H can be eliminated to obtain an equation for the total potential energy of the system in terms of H.
The minimum total potential energy is found by taking the derivative with respect to H and equating to zero.
The simplest division, and the one most frequently used ( with subdivisions ) in gas and electric rate cases, is a threefold division of the total operating and capital costs into `` customer costs '', `` energy '' or `` volumetric costs '', and `` demand '' or `` capacity '' costs.
Alpha particles have a typical kinetic energy of 5 MeV ( that is, ≈ 0. 13 % of their total energy, i. e. 110 TJ / kg ) and a speed of 15, 000 km / s.
The total energy of the recoil nucleus is readily calculable, and is roughly the weight of the alpha ( 4 u ) divided by the weight of the parent ( typically about 200 u ) times the total energy of the alpha.
When referring to total energy output, the proper term is bolometric magnitude.
* Conservation of Energy: Although energy can be converted from one form to another, the total energy in a given closed system remains constant.
Therefore, it works as a neutron reflector and neutron moderator, effectively slowing the neutrons to the thermal energy range of below 0. 03 eV, where the total cross section is at least an order of magnitude lower – exact value strongly depends on the purity and size of the crystallites in the material.
where is the Boltzmann constant, T is temperature ( assumed to be a well-defined quantity ), is the degeneracy ( meaning, the number of levels having energy ; sometimes, the more general ' states ' are used instead of levels, to avoid using degeneracy in the equation ), N is the total number of particles and Z ( T ) is the partition function.
The observations suggest 73 % of the total energy density of today's Universe is in this form.
To implement a surface of constant potential energy quantitatively, let the height of the water be: then the potential energy per unit mass contributed by gravity is and the total potential energy per unit mass on the surface is

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