According to the Law of Conservation of Energy, energy can never be destroyed, but merely transferred from one form to another. Suppose you lift a 1 kg object into the air a distance of 5 meters by applying a force of 10 Newtons upwards. What can you say about the chemical energy used by your body after you lifted the object?   a. You burned 50 Joules of chemical and transferred it to the object.   b. You gained 100 Joule of chemical energy   c. You gained 500 Joules of energy as the object transferred its potential energy to you.   d. You lost 1000 Joules of energy in the process.

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  1. According to the Law of Conservation of Energy, energy can never be destroyed, but merely transferred from one form to another. Suppose you lift a 1 kg object into the air a distance of 5 meters by applying a force of 10 Newtons upwards. What can you say about the chemical energy used by your body after you lifted the object?
      a.
    You burned 50 Joules of chemical and transferred it to the object.
      b.
    You gained 100 Joule of chemical energy
      c.
    You gained 500 Joules of energy as the object transferred its potential energy to you.
      d.
    You lost 1000 Joules of energy in the process.
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