Energy Definitions
Potential Energy
What is stored energy?
Kinetic Energy
What is the energy of motion
An Apple
What is chemical energy?
An apple hanging from a tree
What is potential energy? (GPE)
When energy changes from one form to another.
What is an energy conversion?
Energy
What is the ability to do work?
Sound Energy
What is the vibration of particles or air?
A stretched out rubberband
What is elastic energy?
A roller coaster car that is halfway down the first large hill
What is kinetic energy, or potential energy?
Energy can never be created or destroyed.
What is the Law of Conservation of Energy (LCE)?
Thermal Energy
What is heat energy?
Mechanical Energy
What is the kinetic and potential energy of an object or device?
Toaster
What is thermal energy?
A fire
What is thermal energy? (or light, or sound)
This form can be static (still) or in motion.
What is electrical energy?
Electrical Energy
What is the flow of moving electrons?
Gravitational Potential Energy
What is chemical?
Lightning
What is electrical energy?
This energy conversion happens in a windmill.
What is kinetic (wind) to electrical?
Nuclear Energy
What is energy stored in the nucleus of atoms?
Chemical Energy
What is energy stored in the chemical bonds between atoms?
LeBron James sprinting down a basketball court
What is kinetic energy?
A singer performing at a concert
What is sound energy?
This device is found inside windmills, dams, nuclear plants and electric plants. It has magnets inside it and produces the moving electrons.
What is a generator?