Types of Energy
What is kinetic energy?
Energy of motion
What type of energy transfer happens when you eat food for energy?
Chemical to Chemical
How does heat flow?
From hot to cold.
What is the process of ice becoming water?
Melting
What is the engineering design process?
Steps an engineer takes to solve a problem.
What is potential energy?
Stored energy
What types of energy happens when you turn on a lamp?
Electrical to light energy.
What is temperature?
The measurement of the average kinetic energy of an object.
What is the process of water becoming a gas?
How many steps are there in the engineering design process?
8
What energy is stored in electrons?
Electrical Energy
What kind of energy transfer happens when you drive a car?
Mechanical to chemical and electrical energy.
What is thermal equilibrium?
heat transfer from one object to another until they are the same temperature.
What is the particle structure in a solid?
They vibrate in one spot.
During the testing process my prototype is not successful. What should I do?
Redesign
What energy is stored in the bonds of chemicals?
Chemical energy
What type of energy transfer happens the sun heats a greenhouse that is growing vegetables?
Light energy to chemical energy
What are the 3 types of heat transfer?
Conduction
Convection
Radiation
What is the particle structure in a gas?
They move around until they fill the entire space.
What is a prototype?
A "rough draft" of what you envision the product looking like.
What energy is the average energy of motion and potential?
What type of Energy transfer happens when you use a battery operated shaver?
Chemical to mechanical or Chemical to electrical
This type of heat transfer keeps us warm at home.
Convection
If thermal energy is increased what is going to happen to the molecule movement and temperature?
They both increase.
During the specify step, what do you need to be specific about?
Criteria and constraints