Vocabulary
Vocab/Equations
100
The ability to do work.
What is energy?
100
The energy of electrical charges.
What is Electrical Energy?
200
The energy of motion.
What is Kinetic Energy?
200
The form of energy that travels through space in the form of waves.
What is Electromagnetic Energy?
300
Energy that is stored, as a result of shape or position.
What is Potential Energy?
300
The energy stored in atomic nuclei.
What is Nuclear Energy?
400
Potential Energy that depends on an object's height.
What is Gravitational Potential Energy?
400
PE = mgh
What is the equation to calculate Potential Energy?
500
The total potential and kinetic energy of all the microscopic particles in an object.
What is Thermal Energy?
500
KE = 1/2 mv^2
What is the equation to calculate Kinetic Energy?
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