Vocab 1
The ability of a system to do work.
What is Energy?
Energy that is stored in a system or object.
What is Potential Energy?
Energy of motion.
The change of energy from one form to another.
What is Energy Transformation?
A measure of how much matter is present in a substance.
What is Mass?
A form of energy that exhibits wavelike behavior as it travels through space; part of the electromagnetic spectrum.
What is Light Energy?
The rate of change of position (or distance traveled) with respect to time.
What is Speed?
A form of energy produced by a machine or moving part.
What is Mechanical Energy?
A group of interacting, interrelated, or interdependent elements forming a complex whole.
What is a System?
A form of energy that is made by vibrations and requires a medium (air, water, or solids) to travel.
What is Sound Energy?
Where an object is located in relation to another.
What is Relative Position?
Energy transferred between two objects of different temperatures that moves continually in a predicable. pattern, from a warmer site to a cooler site, until all sites have reached the same temperature.
What is Heat?
A form of energy made available by the flow of electrical charge through a conductor.
What is Electrical Energy?
Scientific law stating that energy can be neither created nor destroyed but just changes form.
What is the Law of Conservation of Energy?
The presence and flow of an electrical charge.
What is Electricity?
The total kinetic (motion) energy of the tiny particles that make up matter; the faster the particles move, the warmer the matter becomes.
What is Thermal Energy?
The transfer of thermal energy that occurs in solids, liquids, and gases when two substances of different temperatures touch.
What is Conduction?
The transfer of energy by the movement of electromagnetic waves or subatomic particles.
What is Radiation?
Heat transfer caused by the rising of hotter, less dense fluids and the falling of cooler, denser fluids.
What is Convection?
The transfer of thermal energy that occurs in solids, liquids, and gases when two substances of different temperatures touch.
What is Conduction?
The result of two or more atoms striking each other with a release or absorption of energy.
What is a Collision of Atoms?
A form of energy that exhibits wavelike behavior as it travels through space; part of the electromagnetic spectrum.
What is Light Energy?
The thermal energy exchange between two objects of different temperatures; energy moves in a predictable pattern from warmer sites to cooler sites until all sites have reached the same temperature.
What is Heat Transfer?
Energy transferred between two objects of different temperatures that moves continually in a predicable. pattern, from a warmer site to a cooler site, until all sites have reached the same temperature.
What is Heat?
A form of energy that is made by vibrations and requires a medium (air, water, or solids) to travel.
What is Sound Energy?