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First off I would like to take the opportunity to thank Dylan for his choosing me, as I am really excited about talking about today's Big Idea...

That aside, Today's Big Idea is talking about the change in Energy being the same as Work done by the Surroundings and other factors (to be determined later). First off we discussed the SPP, or Single Point Particle which essentially labels one object in a system as a single point. Some things to remember about the Single Point Particle. First off, Single Point Particles only have K or Kinetic Energy. A good way to think about a Single Point Particle is like a rock. The surroundings (The Earth) does work on the Rock (Makes it fall). Therefore energy is transferred from the Earth to the Rock. Positive work for the Rock and Negative Work for the Earth.
Also we discussed the next sort of system separate from the Single Point Particle System. We can call this a multi part system. Basically this type of system includes multiple objects. To take our rock example further we can say that the rock includes both the Rock and the Earth. This way we can more effectively observe the LoCoE (Law of Conservation of Energy: energy is neither created nor destroyed, it simply changes forms). The energy although moving inside the system does not change overall for the system in relation to outside surroundings to the system. This is key in remembering that all energy is transferred between systems.

Those are the two basic big ideas. If anyone has any specific questions they can just post a comment below and I think I'll be able to answer them. Next scribe is Eliza.