What do you think of when matter and energy transformation comes to your mind. You are probably thinking about solids, liquids, and gases. These are the most common topics when someone thinks of matter and energy transformation.
Inside matter, a solid acts like marbles. What I mean by marbles, is that since solid is in one state (does not move around like a liquid or gas) they stay together but with all of the energy they never stop moving in place. Matter is made up a few things, the most common is atoms. The atoms inside a solid are moving but not moving around. They are always touching each other.
The only difference from solid to liquid is that liquid is “free”. If a liquid is in a glass it takes the shape of the glass, right? If you dump the water onto the counter, what will it do? It will lose the shape of the cup and become “free”. Since there are atoms in everything (matter) the atoms are always moving, sometime touching, but are always running around like “crazy people”! It’s funny if you think about it, liquid change when it is put into different but solids don’t.
Gases are a little different on the other hand. A gas is always going different places, it hardly never stays together. The atoms inside a gas NEVER touch each other, because of how much free space there is. A gas is always moving because of the energy the atoms have to get in and out of a gas, to go into different properties of matter.
Can you answer the question, “What do you think about when matter and energy transformation comes to your mind?”. Solids, liquids, and gases are what I think about matter and energy.
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