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Identify the energy conversions taking place in each of the following situations. Name all...

Identify the energy conversions taking place in each of the following situations. Name all of the relevant forms of energy that are involved.

a) A camper rubbing two sticks together to start a fire.


b) An arrow shot straight upward, from the moment the bowstring is released by the archer to the moment when the arrow reaches its highest point.


c) A nail being pounded into a board, from the moment a carpenter starts to swing a hammer to the momentwhen the nail has been driven some distance into the wood by the blow.


d) A meteoroid entering the Earth’s atmosphere.

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