A charged cell phone has chemical energy stored in its battery. As you use your phone, the amount of chemical energy in the battery decreases. Why is this not a violation of the first law of thermodynamics?

Because the chemical energy is converted to electrical enegy in the cell phone

Explanation:

This set up is not a voilation of the first law of thermodynamics because the chemical energy is not lost, it is only being transformed into electrical energy.

According to the first law of thermodynamics "energy is neither created nor destroyed but transformed from one form to another".

answer: the correct answer is 1.

explanation: there are various process in which a radioactive nuclei decays:

1) alpha decay: in this process, a heavier nuclei decays into lighter nuclei by releasing alpha particle. the mass number is reduced by 4 units.

2) electron capture: in this decay process, a parent nuclei absorbs an electron and gets converted into a neutron. simply, a proton and an electron combines together to form a neutron. mass number does not change in this process.

3) gamma ray emission: it is a decay process in which an unstable nuclei gives excess energy by a spontaneous electromagnetic process. this decay releases . this process does not change the mass number.

4) positron emission: it is a type of decay process, in which a proton gets converted to neutron and an electron neutrino. this is also known as -decay. in this the mass number remains same.

from the above information, we see that only alpha-decay is producing a change in the mass number of the nucleus.

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