engine · tool
a device that changes energy into motion
Examples
- The internal combustion engine in a 1965 Ford Mustang converts gasoline energy into rotational motion at the crankshaft. engineering
- A hydroelectric turbine at Niagara Falls transforms flowing water's kinetic energy into mechanical rotation to drive generators. physics
- The bacterial flagellar motor in E. coli uses proton gradients to spin its tail and propel the cell forward. biology
Emergence
through: the device changes energy into motion
- conversion of energy to motion
- directed mechanical output
- controlled change through energy flow
Chain to foundations
as tree
Neighborhood
Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.