Brick Building

Brick Building
describe the energy transformations as a brick is dropped from a ten-story building to the ground below.?

Question:using the First Law of Thermodynamics, describe the energy transformations as a brick is dropped from a ten-story building to the ground below. show hoe energy is conserved.

The First Law of Thermodynamics: The increase in the internal energy of a system is equal to the amount of energy added by heating the system, minus the amount lost as a result of the work done by the system on its surroundings. Energy is neither gained nor lost.

===> Although heat is not contributing to the object, the brick, another form of energy, called potential energy is created because: When the brick travels from the initial point (the place where it was dropped, the tenth story), it increasingly gains force and energy and that energy is released once it hits the ground (the final velocity creating kinetic energy). The process where the brick was in it’s initial position is how the energy is conserved, the potential energy gained is equal to the kinetic energy released when it was dropped.

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