Forms of Energy
This form of energy flows through wires.
What is electrical energy?
The bowler is getting ready to throw the bowling ball.
What is potential energy?
This is the ability to make something happen.
What is energy?
He was a Scottish engineer who designed the first steam engine.
Who was James Watt?
This is the energy stored in the nucleus of an atom.
What is nuclear energy?
What energy does the playground swing have when its being used?
What is kinetic energy?
This is the form of energy that keeps particles of matter together.
What is chemical energy?
Unit of power; equal to 1 J/s
What is a watt?
This energy can travel through a vacuum and includes X-rays, radio waves, visible light.
What is electromagnetic energy?
The roller coaster car at the top of the first hill.
What is potential energy?
This is damage that occurs when heat enters the environment.
What is thermal pollution?
This is force exerted through a distance. (Force X distance = ___)
What is work?
This is the energy of the moving particles that make up matter. Also called thermal.
What is heat energy?
The fireworks supply before the 4th of July show.
What is (chemical) potential energy?
This law says that energy cannot be made or destroyed, only changed.
What is the Law of Conservation of Energy?
This is the formula to measure power.
What is "Power = work / time?"
This energy is in all moving things; can be potential, kinetic or both.
What is mechanical energy?
When a football kicks a field goal.
What is kinetic energy?
Unit of work; equal to 1 Newton-meter
What is joule?
How many Watts is 1 unit of horsepower?
746 Watts