Kinetic/Potential Energy
The ability to do work.
What is energy?
Energy carried by electricity.
What is electrical energy?
This is a natural, biological process that converts electromagnetic energy into to chemical energy.
What is photosynthesis?
This is a type of energy that travels in waves and can travel through empty space.
What is electromagnetic (EM) energy?
A tool used to measure the thermal energy of a substance.
What is a thermometer?
A force (a push or pull) applied to an object which forces the object to move over a distance.
What is work?
Energy an object has due to its motion, position or condition.
What is mechanical energy?
This is a common academic tool used in certain classes that converts electromagnetic energy (or chemical) into electrical energy.
What is a [solar-powered] calculator?
This type of EM energy is used for short- and long-range communication.
What are radio waves?
This unit has a zero-point equivalent to -273 degrees celsius.
What is the Kelvin?
The energy any object has because of its motion.
What is kinetic energy?
Energy formed when an atom splits apart or when two atoms join to form one.
What is nuclear energy?
This is a common household device that converts electrical energy into electromagnetic energy and some thermal energy.
What is a lamp (light bulb)?
This object can take visible white light and separate it into the colors of the spectrum.
What is a prism?
The amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of 1 gram of a substance by 1 degree celsius.
What is specific heat?
Stored energy or energy that an object has due to its position above a planet's surface.
What is gravitational potential energy?
Energy stored in the bonds between atoms.
What is chemical energy?
This is an expensive device that some people install to convert electromagnetic energy into thermal energy to heat a building.
What are solar panels?
This type of EM energy can be used to kill germs. In people, it can cause sunburn, wrinkling, and skin cancer.
What are ultraviolet (UV) rays?
The increase in volume of a gas as a result of a temperature increase.
What is thermal expansion?
As a rubber band is stretched tightly, mechanical energy is converted into this.
What is elastic potential energy?
Energy of the movement of atoms and molecules in a material.
What is thermal energy?
This is a machine used daily by billions of people that converts chemical energy into mechanical energy and electrical energy.
What is a gas-powered car (or jet fuel-powered airplane)?
This type of EM energy is extremely dangerous, and a brief exposure can cause cancer.
What are gamma rays?
The three different modes of heat transfer.
What are conduction, convection, and radiation?