Energy
Forms of Energy
Energy Transformations
Transfer of Heat
Thermal Properties
100
The energy an object has due to motion.
What is Kinetic Energy?
100
The sum of Kinetic and Potential Energy.
What is Mechanical Energy?
100
Energy can be converted from one form into
another, but it cannot be created or destroyed.
What is the Law of Conservation of Energy?
100
The transfer of thermal energy from a warmer object to a cooler object.
What is heat?
100
A material that transfers heat well.
What is a conductor?
200
The formula for calculating an object's Kinetic Energy.
What is KE = 1/2mv2?
200
The Potential Energy that is stored in the nucleus of an atom.
What is Nuclear Energy?
200
The position in which the ball has the greatest Potential Energy.
What is Position X?
200
The measure of the average Kinetic Energy of the particles in an object.
What is temperature?
200
A material that does not transfer heat well.
What is an insulator?
300
Energy that results from the position or shape of an object.
What is Potential Energy?
300
A nuclear reaction in which the nuclei of atoms join together.
What is Nuclear Fusion?
300
The position at which the ball has the greatest Kinetic Energy.
What is Position Z?
300
The type of heat transfer that occurs from one particle of a matter to another within an object or between two objects.
What is conduction?
300
The amount of energy that is required to raise the temperature of 1 kilogram of material by 1 Kelvin.
What is specific heat?
400
The two types of potential energy.
What are Elastic and Gravitational Potential Energy?
400
The total energy (Kinetic and Potential) of all the particles in an object.
What is Thermal Energy?
400
The position at which the Potential Energy is greatest.
What is Position A and E?
400
The process in which heated air rises and cooler air sinks, causing a circular motion.
What is a convection current?
400
The expanding of matter as it is heated.
What is thermal expansion?
500
The formula to calculate Gravitational Potential Energy.
What is PE = mgh?
500
Name two types of energy associated with a lamp (ignore Thermal Energy).
What are Electrical and Electromagnetic Energy?
500
The position at which the sum of the Kinetic and Potential Energy is the greatest (ignore friction).
What is neither?
500
The only type of heat transfer that does not require matter.
What is radiation?
500
Gold has a specific heat of 126 J/(kgK). A sculptor increased the temperature of 0.5 kg of gold by 10o C. The sculptor added this much energy to the gold.
What is 630 Joules of energy?