"Energy theater": Using the body symbolically to understand energy

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 1289, Issue , 2010, Pages 293-296

  Scherr, Rachel E ^a   Close, Hunter G ^a   McKagan, Sarah B ^b   Close, Eleanor W ^a  

^a SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b McKagan Enterprises   (United States)

Author keywords

embodied cognition; energy; metaphor; representations

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951969824     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3515226     Document Type: Conference Paper

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9. Exceptions are light energy, which we model as traveling between objects, and chemical energy, which involves a material transformation of the object when the energy is transferred. In case of chemical change, if the object is identified so as to avoid much description of its chemical composition (as in "hand" or "battery," but not as in "marshmallow" or "wood"), the difficulty is forestalled.