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100

Stored energy due to position.

What is potential energy?

100

Energy in the form of motion.

What is kinetic energy?

100

Total amount of kinetic and potential energy in a system.

What is mechanical energy?

100

Energy cannot be created or destroyed.

What is the Law of Conservation of Energy?

100

The ability to cause change.

What is energy?

200

Energy stored in chemical bonds.

What is chemical potential energy?

200

The amount of kinetic energy a moving object has depends on its mass and its . . . 

What is speed?

200

Energy in the form of heat that escapes a mechanical energy system.

What is thermal energy?

200

Causes some mechanical energy to change to thermal energy.

What is friction?

200

Unit used to measure energy of food.

What is a Calorie?

300

Energy stored by things that stretch or compress.

What is elastic potential energy?

300

Doubling an object's velocity will do this to its kinetic energy.

What is quadruple?

300

All of the energy in the universe today is a result of the mechanical present at this time.

What is the Big Bang?

300

You convert kinetic energy to thermal energy when you rub to sticks together because of this

What is friction?

300

SI unit of energy.

What is a Joule?

400

Energy stored by things that are above earth.

What is gravitational potential energy?

400

A change in this has a greater impact on the kinetic energy of an object.

What is speed?

400

To overcome thermal energy loss due to friction in a automobile engine this is used.

What is a lubricant (oil)?

400

In old train engines the potential energy of wood was converted to make steam to cause the train to move.  What form of energy was the steam?

What is thermal energy?

400

The name of the form of energy that mathematically is present in the universe, causing it to expand, but humans have not devised a way to detect it yet.

What is Dark Energy?

500

CALCULATION:  A 10 kg gold bar is dropped 1.5 m from the bag of a theif.  The potential energy of the bar was . . .

What is 147 J?

500

CALCULATION:  A race car has a mass of 1,000 kg and a speed of 10 m/s.  The kinetic energy would be

What is 100,000 J?

500

CALCULATION:  A car has 10,000 J of mechanical energy.  4,500 J of kinetic energy in the motion of the car.  4,000 J of potential energy in the fuel.  The amount of thermal energy escaping the system.

What is 1,500 J?

500

CALCULATION:  Mr. Welch places his 0.035 kg golf ball on a tee 0.10 m that sits on an elevated tee box 50.0 m above the green.  If the wind blows the ball off the tee and it rolls down the hill to the green, it should have this speed if there is no friction

What is 22 m/s?

500

CALCULATION:  A #1 Arby's combo meal of barbequed brisket sandwich, curly fries, and a medium drink has 1,150 calories (heat unit) listed on the screen.  The number of Calories (food unit) of that meal.

What is 1,150,000 Calories?