VOCAB
The ability to do work or cause change
What is Energy?
What is potential energy + kinetic energy?
A School bus moving
What is Mechanical Energy?
Energy stored in the nucleus of an atom
What is nuclear energy?
A material that contains stored potential energy we burn to release energy
The transfer of energy
How do you calculate gravitational potential energy?
Ice cream melting
The form of energy associated with position and motion
What is mechanical energy?
Matter can neither be created nor destroyed
What is the law of conservation of energy?
The rate at which energy is transferred
What is power?
How do you calculate kinetic energy?
What is 1/2 x mass x velocity squared?
Food
What is chemical energy?
The potential energy stored in chemical bonds that hold chemical compounds together.
What is chemical energy?
The two basic forms of energy
What are kinetic and potential energy?
The unit that measures the energy
A student stands at the edge of a diving board that is 5 m high. The student's weight is 400 N. What is the student's gravitational potential energy?
What is 2000 J?
the sun
What is Nuclear energy?
The energy that moving electric charges carry
What is electrical energy?
Miss Birner's little sister's name
What is Peggy?
The unit that measures power
What are watts?
A car with a mass of 700 kg is moving at a speed of 20m/s. Calculate the kinetic energy of the car
What is 7000 J?
Visible light
What is electromagnetic energy?
What is thermal energy?
What city was Miss Birner born in?
What is Lusaka?