Energy and Work
The capacity to do work.
What is energy?
The kinetic energy of electromagnetic waves.
What is electromagnetic energy?
The potential energy stored on the nucleus of an atom.
What is Nuclear energy?
The results of a system.
What is output?
What the chemical energy in the food we eat originally comes from.
What is the Sun?
The potential energy stored in the chemical bonds of substances.
What is chemical energy?
Kinetic energy caused by the vibration of particles in a medium, such as steel, water, or air.
What is Sound energy?
Another word for a Newton-meter.
What is a Joule?
The transfer of energy to an object by using a force that causes the object to move in the direction of the force.
What is work?
The energy that an object has because of the position, condition, or chemical composition.
What is potential energy?
The potential mechanical energy stored in an object when work is performed to change its shape.
What is Elastic energy?
A set of particles or interacting components considered to be a distinct physical entity for the purpose of study
What is a system?
The formula to calculating work.
What is W= Fd?
the energy of an object due to the objects motion.
What is kinetic energy?
The total kinetic energy of all the particles that make up an object.
What is Thermal energy?
The change of energy to a different form.
What is energy transformation?
The sum of the object’s kinetic energy and potential energy.
What is mechanical energy?
When two objects collide, each exerts a force on the other that can cause energy to pass from one to the other.
What is energy transfer?