Tabla de Contenidos
To give the required examples, we must first know what matter is.
Everything that occupies space and has mass and volume is called matter . In this sense, what we can touch is matter. While we can rely on our sense of touch for things that are made of matter, we can also perceive many things that are not made of matter with our senses on a daily basis. That which does not have mass or volume, and therefore does not occupy space, is then something that is not made up of matter.
In addition to some immaterial things that we can perceive with our senses, such as sounds or heat, abstract concepts also fall into this classification.
Examples of things that are not matter
- Time
- Sound
- The light
- The thoughts
- The gravity
- electromagnetic waves
- The heat
- Memories
- Information
- Energy
- Dreams
- Love, hate and in general emotions.
Other data
- Examples of matter: a human being, an animal, a plant, a rock.
- Light and heat are forms of energy, and energy is not matter.
- Matter is organized in predictable ways.
- Fire is not matter, it is the energetic manifestation of a chemical reaction called combustion.
- Matter can have several states: liquid, solid, gas, plasma, and the Bose-Einstein condensate.
References
De los Arcos, T. (2011) Plasma: the fourth state of matter. Available at: https://books.google.co.ve/books?id=dxpyTP2Sd8gC&dq
IGER. (2018) Natural Sciences. Available at: https://books.google.co.ve/books?id=Wj2IDwAAQBAJ&dq
