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Energy that is stored as a result of position or shape
What is Potential Energy?
The energy associated with moving charged particles.
What is Electrical Energy?
The force a person exerts on a machine
What is Input Force?
The force exerted by a machine
What is Output Force?
The amount of work done each second
What is Power?
Potential energy that depends upon the object's position above the Earth, or height.
What is Gravitational Potential Energy?
The distance the input force is applied
What is Input Distance?
A simple machine consisting of a sloping surface that connects lower and higher elevations.
What is an Inclined Plane?
A simple machine that consists of 2 connected rings or cylinders, one inside the other. Both wheels turn in the same direction around a single point.
What is a Wheel & Axle?
A simple machine that consists of an incline plane wrapped around a cylinder or cone.
What is a Screw?
A simple machine that consists of a rope and grooved wheel. The rope fits into the groove in the wheel, so pulling the rope turns the wheel.
What is a Pulley?
The ratio of the output force to the input force.
What is the Actual Mechanical Advantage (AMA)?
What is a Wedge?
The process of energy changing from one form to another.
What is Energy Conversion?
Made up of the total kinetic energy of the moving atoms and molecules of an object
What is Thermal Energy?
The energy stored in the chemical bonds of the molecules that make up a substance.
What is Chemical Energy?
A simple machine consisting of a bar that rotates around a fixed point called a fulcrum.
What is a Lever?
Machines made up of two or more simple machines that operate together
What are Compound Machines?
The percentage of work input that becomes work output
What is Efficiency?
States that energy can not be created or destroyed; it can only be converted from one form to another or transferred from one object to another.
What is the Law of Conservation of Energy?
The sum of an object's potential and kinetic energy
What is Mechanical Energy?
A form of energy that is reflected or emitted from objects and travels through space in the form of waves.
What is Electromagnetic Energy?
The distance the output force is exerted through, or how far the load moves.
What is Output Distance?
A process that releases energy by splitting atomic nuclei apart
What is Nuclear Energy?
The product of a force and the distance the object moves.
What is Work?