Motion
Point to a reference point
Distance an object travels per unit of time
Speed
Elastic Potential Energy
(!) The rate at which velocity changes with time
Acceleration
What kind of energy do rubber bands hold?
Which measures the length of a path between two points?
Distance
The rate and which a given object is moving at a given instant in time
Instantaneous Speed
(!) Which affects kinetic energy more, speed or mass?
Speed
Give an example of an object with a constant speed
[escalators, cars, windmills, orbits]
What type of energy pulls airplanes down?
Gravitational Potential Energy
The length AND direction that an object has moved from its starting point
Displacement
The equation to calculate speed
Distance
Time
(!) Every object we throw into the air reaches a point where it experiences _______ kinetic energy
Zero
Give an example of acceleration's unit of measurement
m/s2 (or any example that has the time squared)
(!) What is kinetic energy?
The energy an object has due to its motion
A quantity that has both magnitude and direction
Vector
(!) Speed in a given direction
Velocity
(!) What type of energy pulls you down a tall slide very fast?
Gravitational Potential Energy
List three ways acceleration can change
speeding up, slowing down, changing direction
What are the two types of potential energy?
Gravitational Potential Energy and Elastic Potential Energy
(!) When a distance from one object to another is changing
Motion
The steepness of a line on a graph is called
If you pushed a water bottle off the table, what two types of energies did it experience?
Kinetic energy and Gravitational Potential Energy
What is the formula for calculating acceleration?
Final Velocity - Initial Velocity
Time
Mechanical energy is the sum of which two types of energy?
Kinetic Energy and Potential Energy