This form of energy depends on the height of an object. (be specific)
What is gravitational potential energy?
List the energy transfers in a windmill.
Kinetic - Mechanical- electrical
True or false: you can create energy.
What is false?
This form of energy is the ability to stretch.
What is elastic potential energy?
List the energy transfers for a book falling off a shelf.
What is gravitational-> kinetic-> potential?
True or false: you cannot destroy energy.
What is true?
These forms of energy are present in an electrical circuit with a light bulb.
What is electrical, and radiant?
The form of energy involved the squashing together of atoms and occurs on the sun. (be specific)
What is nuclear energy (fusion)?
List the energy transfers for turning on a flashlight. (there are 5)
What is chemical‐ kinetic- electrical ‐radiant‐ thermal?
Why is the highest point of a roller coster always the tallest?
What is the max potential energy that will never be reached again as some energy is lost as heat during the transformations.
When pulling back a rubber band, _______ energy transfers to _________ energy.
What is kinetic, potential?
As a pendulum reaches its highest point, the energy is transferred from ______ to ______.
What is potential to kinetic?
A cell phone demonstrates these types of energies.( there are 5)
What is chemical, electrical, radiant, sound and thermal?
The sun demonstrates these three forms of energy.
What is nuclear, thermal and radiant, (electromagnetic or light)?
This is a form of energy that we hear and is also know as mechanical energy.
What is sound energy?
What law states "Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it simply changes form"
What the Law of Conservation of Energy?