Energy 1
Energy based on movement
What is Kinetic Energy?
Energy that is stored
What is Potential Energy?
Joules
What is energy measured in?
Energy that is identified as a result of heat or temperature increase
What is thermal/heat energy?
Energy can never be created nor destroyed
What is the law of conservation of energy?
Energy that forms as a result of electrons travelling through charged particles
What is electrical energy?
Energy stored through stretching or squashing
What is elastic potential energy?
The type of energy that is stored in our food
A type of energy that travels in vibrating waves
What is sound energy?
Energy that travels in waves and is visible to the human eye
What is light energy?
A proportion of how much energy goes in as opposed to how much useful energy comes out
What is energy efficiency?
Objects placed on roofs specifically for capturing energy from the sun
What are solar panels?
Light emitting diodes
Energy production that involves fission and fusion of atoms
What is nuclear energy?
mgh
What is the formula for gravitational potential energy?
1/2mv2
What is the formula for Kinetic Energy?
The type of occupation that is involved with designing objects and inventions and solving issues with the manufacturing world.
What is an engineer?
Fuels formed by natural processes used to burn and create energy
What are fossil fuels?
The type of lighting, common in schools, that contains mercury.
What are fluorescent lights?
Objects that convert one type of energy to another