Vocabulary
What is Energy?
Forms of Energy
Math
Miscellaneous
100
The ability to do work or cause change
What is energy?
100
Potential energy related to an object's height
What is gravitational potential energy?
100
The total kinetic and potential energy of the particles in an object
What is thermal energy?
100
A girl & her dog are running. The dog has a mass of 20kg. Suppose both the dog & the girl run at a speed of 2m/s. Calculate the kinetic energy of the dog
What is 40J?
100
This has a greater effect on an object's kinetic energy- doubling its mass or doubling its speed
What is doubling the speed?
200
The form of energy associated with the motion, position, or shape of an object
What is mechanical energy?
200
Daily Double
The energy associated with objects that can be compressed or stretched
Daily Double
What is elastic potential energy?
200
Daily Double
The energy of electric charges
Daily Double
What is electrical energy?
200
Potential energy = 12J
Kinetic energy = 10J
What is the mechanical energy?
What is 22J?
200
In regular bowling, the ball has a mass of 7kg. In candlepin bowling, the ball has a mass of 1kg. Does the ball with the greater mass always have the greater mechanical energy? Why?
No, it could have greater mechanical energy if it's moving fast enough
300
The energy an object has due to its motion
What is kinetic energy?
300
You could use an elevator or the stairs to lift a box to the tenth floor. Which has greater power?
Elevator
300
A form of energy that travels through space in waves
What is electromagnetic energy?
300
A girl & her dog are running. The girl has a mass of 60kg. Suppose both the dog & the girl run at a speed of 2m/s. What is the kinetic energy of the girl?
What is 120J?
300
Is it reasonable that for a dog with a mass of 20kg & a girl with a mass of 60kg, both running at the same speed, the girl will have more kinetic energy?
Yes, the girl has more mass
400
A type of potential energy that is stored in the nucleus of an atom
What is nuclear energy?
400
The rate at which energy is transferred, or the amount of energy transferred in unit of time
What is power?
400
Potential energy stored in chemical bonds
What is chemical energy?
400
Potential energy = 20J
Kinetic energy = 2J
What is the mechanical energy?
What is 22J?
400
If an object's mechanical energy is equal to it's potential energy, how much kinetic energy does the object have?
What is zero?
500
Energy that results from the position or shape of an object
What is potential energy?
500
List the vehicles in order of increasing kinetic energy
What is motorcycle, blue car, red car?
500
Why does the ball's gravitational potential energy increase from the time it's in the shooter's hand to now?
What is it's height increases?
500
A girl & her dog are running. The dog has a mass of 20kg. Suppose the dog is running at a speed of 4m/s. Calculate the dog's kinetic energy
What is 160J?
500
What is the SI unit for the following quantities:
Force
Height
Work
Mass
Energy
What is Newton, meter, Joule, kilogram, Joule?