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NYSSLS Reading Passages: Energy

Energy The Weight of Heat: A Honeymoon, a Waterfall, and the Law That Changed Physics
Joule's paddlewheel apparatus: falling weights turn brass paddles inside an insulated cask of water, converting potential energy into kinetic energy and then into thermal energy, W = JQ
The story of James Prescott Joule: a six-foot thermometer, a honeymoon in the French Alps, and a waterfall he and William Thomson tried to warm on purpose — the strange, patient path to proving that heat is motion, not a fluid, and that energy is never created or destroyed. 3 multiple-choice and 3 extended-response questions. Open Reading Passage Regents Practice Version Interactive Regents Practice

Interactive Regents Practice from the Lessons

Each link jumps to the self-grading NYSSLS practice section at the bottom of a lesson page (16 lessons): a Regents-style question plus a challenge set with Support/Refute, substitute-values, vector, bar-graph and constructed-response questions.

Energy

Thermal Energy