Potential and Kinetic
Energy that is in motion
What is kinetic energy?
The form of energy associated with motion, position, or shape of an object.
What is mechanical energy?
The type of energy that travels through space in waves.
What is electromagnetic energy?
The type of energy that include ultraviolet rays, heat waves, radio waves, and microwaves.
What is electromagnetic energy?
The definition of an energy transformation.
What is when one form of energy is changed into another form of energy?
Energy that is stored.
What is potential energy?
The forms of energy that are associated with the particles of objects.
What are nuclear, thermal, electrical, electromagnetic, and chemical energy?
The defintion of chemical energy?
What is the type of potential energy sotres in chemical bonds?
One type of electromagnetic energy that is used by the sun, moon, and stars.
What is light?
The defintion of single transformation.
What is when one form of energy is transformed only once into another form of energy?
What is potential energy?
The definition of nuclear energy
What is the type of energy that is stored in the nucleus of an atom?
The name given to when a nucleus splits.
Electrical energy can come from...
What are batteries and electrical lines?
The defintion of a multiple transformation.
What is when a series of transformation or many transformations are needed to do work?
The type of energy that a ball has when falling off of a desk.
The total kinetic and potential energy of the particles in an object.
What is thermal energy?
The name given to when a nucleus joins together.
What is fusion?
The type of energy that a person lifting weights is using.
What is mechanical energy?
The law that states that energy cannot be created or destroyed.
What is the law of conservation of energy?
What are elastic, grativitational, nuclear, and chemical?
The definition of electrical energy.
What is the energy of electric charges?
The result of when an object increases in temperature.
What is the increase in the thermal energy of that object?
How chemical energy works.
What is when chemical bonds are broken and stored energy is released?
Why could the balls in our experiment not reach the point from which they were dropped?
What is there was a change from kinetic energy into thermal energy due to friction?