Energy
Forms of energy
Thermal Energy and heat
Temperature
100
energy in motion
What is kinetic energy
100
The total amount of potential and kinetic energy in a substance
What is Mechanical Energy
100
the total kinetic energy of all the particles in a substance
What is thermal energy?
100
the average kinetic energy of all particles
What is temperature?
200
an objects position, condition or chemical composition
What is potential energy?
200
the energy released or absorbed in a chemical reaction; a form of potential energy
What is chemical energy?
200
material that transfers heat well
What is a conductor?
200
states that all particles that make up matter are constantly in motion.
What is the kinetic theory of matter?
300
When energy changes from one form to another
What is an energy transformation?
300
Energy transmitted through space in the form of electromagnetic waves
What is electromagnetic energy?
300
material that poorly transfers heat
What is an insulator?
300
the temperature scale used most commonly around the world, often used by scientists
What is the Celsius scale?
400
states that energy is neither created nor destroyed
What is the law of conservation of energy?
400
The energy released when the nuclei of two atoms join together
What is nuclear energy?
400
the energy being transferred from an object with higher temperature to an object with lower temperature.
What is heat?
400
the scale used most commonly by physicists
What is the Kelvin scale?
500
a group of objects that transfers energy only to one another
What is a closed system?
500
the energy that results from the motion or position of charged particles
What is electrical energy?
500
the energy needed to raise one gram of water by 1 degree celsius
What is a calorie?
500
a thermometer
What is the instrument used to measure temperature?
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