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Energy transformation, also known as energy conversion, is the process of changing energy from one form to another. Principal chapter coverage is devoted to thermoelectric, photovoltaic, thermionic and magnetohydrodynamic. Most of these energy converters, sometimes called static energyconversion devices, use electrons as their working fluid in place of the vapour or gas employed by such dynamic heat engines as the externalcombustion and internalcombustion engines mentioned above. Light energy is energy inside light and sound energy is the energy carried by sound waves. Lienhard v phlogiston press this textbook is an introduction to heat and mass transfer for engineering students. The ideas about interconversion of one form of energy into another will be implicit and explicit in student examples and discussion. It is a scheme for power extraction from nuclear fusion.
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