Energy
Define Energy
What is the ability to do work or cause change
Define Kinetic energy.
What is the energy in an object due to it's motion?
Define potential energy.
What is the stored energy in an object due to its position or condition?
Define heat
What is the flow of heat from warmer objects to cooler objects?
The type of wave that forms sound waves.
What is longitudinal waves?
The two main categories of energy.
What are potential and kinetic energy?
The abbreviation for kinetic energy.
What is KE
Name a sub-category of potential energy.
What is gravitational energy?
Thermal energy is taken away from a balloon. What happens?
What is the balloon shrinks?
The squished part of a sound wave.
What is a compression?
The law stating that energy cannot be created or destroyed.
A sub category of kinetic energy.
What is electrical energy, chemical energy, mechanical energy, sound energy, thermal energy, electromagnetic energy, or nuclear energy?
How can you increase the potential energy of an object?
What is by raising it's height or increasing it's mass?
How does thermal energy relate to temperature?
What is temperature is a measure of thermal energy?
The distance between a certain point on one wave to the identical point on the next wave.
What is wavelength?
Elastic energy is a sub category of _________ energy.
What is potential energy?
Give an example of an object that has kinetic energy.
What is a rolling ball or a moving car? (an object in motion)
What happens to the potential energy of an object as it falls?
What is it decreases as it converts to kinetic energy?
Define thermal energy.
What is the total energy of all the particles in an object due to their movement?
The word used to describe how low or high a sound is.
What is pitch?
The difference between potential energy and kinetic energy.
What is potential energy is stored energy, while kinetic energy is energy is motion?
Two objects are falling from different heights. Which one has more kinetic energy?
What is the one that is falling farther?
A rock is lifted 5 feet into the air. How does it's potential energy change?
What is it increases as it is lifted higher?
Bridges and sidewalks are designed this way to accommodate changes in thermal temperature.
What is bridges and sidewalks have gaps?
What is the difference between frequency and amplitude?
What is frequency determines pitch, while amplitude determines volume?