What is Energy
What is Potential Energy?
Potential energy is the energy stored in an object due to its position or condition.
What is Kinetic Energy?
Kinetic energy is the energy an object possesses due to its motion.
What is Mechanical Energy?
It used to move, lift and hold object.
What is Matter?
Any thing that takes up space and has mass.
The Energy of Motion.
Kinetic energy.
What is the pie chart looks like when the roller coaster is halfway down the hill?
Half blue (Potential energy) and half green (Kinetic energy).
What is Chemical Energy?
Chemical energy is stored within the bonds between atoms of matter.
music coming from the radio, your loud vacuum cleaner, people talking on tv are all examples of this type of energy.
Sound energy.
What is Thermal Energy?
Thermal energy is the total internal energy of an object due to the random motion of its particles.
What is the units for Energy.
Joules.
If you imagine a drop of water about to fall down a waterfall, at the top of the waterfall the drop of water has this kind of energy.
Potential Energy.
What is Electrical Energy?
Electrical energy is carried by charged particles.
Energy cannot be created nor destroyed, only transformed.
Law of Conservation of Energy.
What is Nuclear Energy?
Nuclear energy is stored within the nucleus of an atom.
When roller coaster is moving, why the track is hot?
The track of a roller coaster can become hot due to friction between the wheels of the roller coaster cars and the track.