Potential and Kinetic
Energy Transformations
Forces
Potential and Kinetic
Waves
100
Santa landed his sleigh on the roof of the house. This is energy should Santa be wary of while he is up there.
What is gravitational potential energy?
100
This is the energy transformation describing how a truck driving down the road conserves energy. (there are 3)
What is chemical to mechanical to thermal?
100
Contact force due to "rubbing" between two surfaces. Kinetic, sliding, and air resistance are examples.
What is friction?
100
This type of energy is also called stored energy.
What is potential energy?
100
This type of wave does not need a medium to travel.
What are transverse waves?
200
Santa’s elves are working hard building the toys for Christmas. They are having trouble with the toy slingshots. Head elf Bernard discovered Trudy had accidentally replaced the rubber with knitting yarn. This is the kind of energy the slingshots are missing.
What is elastic potential energy?
200
Which example correctly represents an energy transfer?
- A flashlight turning on
- Wind blowing a kite through the air
- Using a hair dryer
What is the wind blowing a kite through the air?
200
This force is the equal and opposite reaction to the force of gravity on an a book sitting on a table.
What is Normal Force?
200
These are the two factors that determine how much kinetic energy an object has.
What are mass and speed?
200
All of these are examples of transverse waves EXCEPT..
-Sonar waves
-Light waves
-Electromagnetic waves
-Water ripples
What are sonar waves?
300
Little Johnny opened his presents to find a super awesome new remote controlled car. Johnny tried to drive it around his front porch but it wouldn’t go. This is the kind of energy that was not included in his toy.
What is chemical potential energy?
300
This is the energy transformation of watching a video on your phone? (there are 4)
What is a transformation of chemical to radiant, sound, and some thermal?
300
In a game of tug of war, this is what would have to happen in order to have balanced forces.
What is that neither team is winning and the rope is not moving in either direction.
300
These are the three types of potential energies.
What are gravitational, elastic, and chemical?
300
This is the wave type that can only travel through a solid, liquid, or gas. It cannot travel through empty space.
What is a longitudinal wave?
400
What is wrong with the design of this roller coaster?
Point Y is too high and should be the first hill of the roller coaster?
400
This is the energy transformation of solar power plant. (there are 3)
What is Nuclear to Radiant to Electrical?
400
Newton's third law states for action there is an ________ and _________ ___________.
What is equal and opposite reaction?
400
These are the two factors that determine an objects gravitational potential energy.
What are mass and height from the ground?
400
Longitudinal waves run ________ and transverse waves run ________ to the motion of the medium.
What are parallel and perpendicular.
500
On the last house of the night, Santa entered the chimney to deliver the gifts. Santa was pretty tired and careless, so as he entered his foot slipped and he slid down fast! This energy is increasing as he falls.
What is kinetic energy?
500
The transformation in photosynthesis. (2)
What is radiant to chemical?
500
This is the net force of a box that is being pushed with 10N to the right and 20N to the left.
What is 10N to the left?
500
Two boulders are rolling down a hill towards Susie. If Susie wanted to try to stop the boulder with less kinetic energy, which of these should she choose? Why?
Boulder A with a mass of 45kg and a speed of 25km/hr
Boulder B with a mass of 20kg and a speed of 25km/hr.
What is boulder B? It has less mass so it has less Kinetic energy.
500
Joe Bob threw a large rock into a pond. This created ripples in the water. Ripples are energy traveling in this direction.
What is up and down?