[Illustration: Figure 2 _To find how one form of energy is converted
into another, start at the proper column and move down until the
column intersects with the desired row. The box at the intersection
will give typical conversion processes and examples._]
FROM⇒ ELECTROMAGNETIC CHEMICAL NUCLEAR THERMAL KINETIC ELECTRICAL GRAVITATIONAL
(MECHANICAL)
TO⇓
ELECTROMAGNETIC Chemiluminescence Gamma reactions Thermal radiation Accelerating Electromagnetic Unknown
(fireflies) (Co⁵⁸ source) (hot iron) charge radiation[2]
A-bomb (cyclotron) (TV transmitter)
Phosphor[2] Electroluminescence
CHEMICAL Photosynthesis Radiation Boiling Dissociation by Electrolysis Unknown
(plants) catalysis (water/steam) radiolysis (production of
Photochemistry (hydrazine plant) Dissociation aluminum)
(photographic Ionization Battery charging
film) (cloud chamber)
NUCLEAR Gamma-neutron Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown
reactions
(Be⁹+γ → Be⁸+n)
THERMAL Solar absorber Combustion Fission Friction Resistance-heating Unknown
(hot sidewalk) (fire) (fuel element) (brake shoes) (electric stove)
Fusion
KINETIC Radiometer Solar Muscle Radioactivity Thermal expansion Motors Falling objects
cell[2] (alpha particles) (turbines) Electrostriction
A-bomb Internal combustion (sonar transmitter)
(engines)
ELECTRICAL Photoelectricity Fuel cell[2] Nuclear Thermoelectricity[2] MHD[2][3] Unknown
(light meter) Batteries[2] battery[2] Thermionics[2] Conventional
Radio antenna Thermomagnetism[2] generator
Solar cell[2] Ferroelectricity[2]
GRAVITATIONAL Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Rising objects Unknown
(rockets)