Vocabulary
Distance-Time Graph
Potential/Kinetic Energy
Speed/Motion
Engineers
100
The location of an object
What is position?
100
Time (s)
What is the label for the x axis?
100
A ball in the air
What is gravitational potential energy?
100
The distance traveled divided by the time interval during which the motion occurred
What is speed?
100
A career that deals with designing materials, structures, products, and processes
What is an engineer?
200
Energy due to heat in an object, the total amount of kinetic energy present in an object
What is thermal energy?
200
Distance (m)
What is the label for the y axis?
200
A Slinky being stretched
What is elastic potential energy?
200
Two ramps are set up, one is higher than the other, a person lets two cars go at the top of each ramp, the car on the higher ramp goes faster
What is the higher ramp car has more speed? More kinetic energy? More potential energy?
200
Designs bridges, highways, stadiums, airports, water and sewer systems, race tracks
What is a civil engineer?
300
A measure of the average kinetic energy of all the particles in an object or a substance
What is temperature?
300
Not moving
What is from 20-40 seconds?
300
Food or coal
What is chemical potential energy?
300
distance/time
What is the formula for speed?
300
Designs airplanes, helicopters, spacecraft, missiles, and satellites
What is an aerospace engineer?
400
Energy is neither created nor destroyed, it simply changes form
What is the Law of Conservation of Energy?
400
In motion at a constant rate, but not going at the fastest speed
What is from 0 to 20 seconds?
400
Three children all weigh the same amount, one child crosses the finish line first by running faster
What is the child has a greater kinetic energy than the other two children?
400
An object's change in position relative to a reference point
What is motion?
400
Designing and creating the Mars Rover
What is the job of a Mechanical Engineer?
500
The sum of an object's kinetic energy and potential energy due to gravity or elastic deformation
What is mechanical energy?
500
In motion at a constant rate, but going the fastest speed
What is from 40 to 60 seconds?
500
Depends on an object's mass and speed
What is kinetic energy?
500
Having a distance of 50 meters in 42 seconds
What is 1.19 m/s?
500
Identify a problem, design a solution, implement a proposed design, evaluate a completed design, and communicate the process
What are the steps in an engineer's design process?
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