Energy transfer examples
A microphone is plugged in and a person is singing.
What is electrical energy to sound energy?
Energy that is due to your position. For example, a skier on top of a mountain.
What is gravitational potential energy?
Moving. The light box took one person to lift and the couch took 3 people to carry it.
What is Newton's second law?
A spoon that was sitting in a hot bowl of soup burns your hand.
What is conduction?
If you climb a hill faster (lower time) what would happen to your power?
What is increase?
Plants use the sunlight to go through photosynthesis.
What is radiant/light energy to chemical energy?
9.8
What is the amount of gravity on Earth?
Your mom brakes for a deer and her purse moves forward onto the floor.
What is Newton's first law?
A rock outside gets hot from the sun.
What is radiation?
Work never changes, unless your force (weight in newtons) or the distance changes. True/False
What is true?
Batteries in a flashlight turn on flashlight.
There are 4.
Chemical energy to electrical to radiant/light to heat/thermal energy?
The type of energy that is stored in rubber, springs, etc..
You kick a ball that was sitting on the gym floor and then it starts to move.
What is Newton's first law?
Your attic is hotter than your basement.
What is convection?
The rate at which velocity changes.
What is acceleration?
A person eats an apple and then can ride a bike.
Energy that happened with the ball bouncers. How did they start and how did they end?
You kick your foot to start a skateboard rolling.
What is Newton's third law?
A lava lamp makes the liquid inside move around when it is heated.
What is convection?
Unit of measurement for power.
Watts
Solar windmill moves outside.
There are 3.
What is radiant/light to electrical to mechanical/kinetic energy?
Energy transfer happened with the rocket launchers. What did they start as and how did they end?
What is gravitational potential energy to kinetic energy?
You do a push up in gym class. You push down and your body goes up.
What is Newton's third law?
Hot wax is melted in a spoon because it is held above a candle.
What is conduction?
Unit of measurement for work.
What is Joules?