We know that no energy ever fades and always all kinds of energies turn into a different sort!
2006-08-27 02:27:21 · 7 answers · asked by ? 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
When you distort metal as in squeezing a spring you are forcing metal atoms (or molecules) together or apart. The potential energy is locked up in the distortion of the electron fields of the atoms. Dissolving the spring allows the atoms (and electron fields) to return to their unstressed states. The atoms would move very slightly as they are released and their energy would move and heat up the acid solution so that nothing is lost. It is unlikely that the temperature increase would be large enough to be detected. Even though the temperature increase could be relatively large on a molecular scale, the heat energy would soon be shared by billions of other molecules and the affect on average temperature would be nil.
In a similar way you could stretch an elastic band and place it in a vial of water. If you cut the band it would snap back to its at rest size and its stored energy would agitate the water causing a slight temperature increase (due to "paddle wheel" work).
2006-08-27 03:26:47 · answer #1 · answered by Kes 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The potential energy is stored as long as the spring is being squeezed.
If the thing holding the spring squeezed is released, the potential energy will be released in the movement of the spring.
If the spring is kept deformed and the acid dissolves a part of it, the remainder of the spring will move as the potential energy is used.
The acid will not instantaneously dissolve the spring as all chemical reactions take time.
2006-08-27 03:02:25 · answer #2 · answered by Orinoco 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The potential energy of a spring dissolved in acid is converted instantainiously into vapors released from the acid, composed of the results between the composition of the spring after its reaction to the acid. The vapors atoms absorb the energy though eletron conversion, and then immediately dissipate its molecules throught the atmosphere released in. It becomes kenetic energy.
2006-08-27 03:02:07 · answer #3 · answered by Benjamin G 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The energy will cool the acid, I say this because when you compress the spring it heats the metal, when you relax the stress it cools the metal. You can try this ~ with a rubber band, stretch it and allow it to touch your upper lip, feels hot. it will feel cold when you relax the stress. A heat pump. The acid will relax the stress of the metal. The metal will cool the acid, you have to remember to take into account the temperature of the acid is rising because of the action of the acid on the metal.
2006-08-27 02:45:07 · answer #4 · answered by treb67 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It just peters out.
No spring left.
It just cant spring Unfortunately.
Energy is a process it does not turn in any sort its just energy.
However it manifest itself differently in different mass structures.
However each mass structures experiences the same process.
2006-08-27 02:56:24 · answer #5 · answered by goring 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is used to deform the spring material. The same thing happens when a material suffers creep.
2006-08-27 02:33:34 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
wouldn't it be kinetic energy coiling the spring
2006-08-27 02:34:11 · answer #7 · answered by Steven E 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋