Energy Relay Workshop
Energy is held in stores and transferred through pathways; total energy remains accounted for as useful output spreads into thermal and sound pathways, while transfer rate is different from the amount accumulated in a store.
What your child will figure out
- Distinguish a named energy store inside a component from the transfer pathway between components.
- Balance a quantitative ledger so useful, thermal, sound, and stored changes account for the input.
- Reveal and explain unnoticed thermal pathways without describing energy as destroyed or lost.
- Compare accumulated battery store with instantaneous transfer rate in a novel device chain.
The levels
- Wake the bench
Connect a battery store to a motor through an electrical pathway and explain the distinction.
- Relay split
Tune a 100-unit transfer into mechanical, thermal, and sound branches while keeping the ledger balanced.
- Lights-out reveal
Darken the workshop to reveal an unnoticed motor and axle thermal pathway, then rebalance the ledger.
- Battery clock
Compare the same accumulated battery store at two transfer rates and explain the different drain times.
- Festival fan
Transfer the model to a battery–motor–fan chain with at least 45 useful mechanical units and all other pathways accounted for.
Ready when they are.
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