Suppose you use a match to ignite a sheet of paper from your…
Suppose you use a match to ignite a sheet of paper from your notebook and allow the fire to continue until the burning stops. If you could measure all the energy in the resulting combustion products and all the energy in the heat released, would you predict this amount to be more than, less than, or the same amount as the amount of potential energy in the starting sheet of paper? (You should ignore the activation energy provided by the match to light the paper.)