Kinetic Energy
The motion of electrons
What is electric energy?
Energy stored in stretching or squeezing
What is elastic energy?
All questions in this category must be answered in the form, "What is from ___ to ___?"
Punting a football from ground level to the peak of its arc
What is from kinetic energy to gravitational potential energy?
What is chemical energy?
This states that energy cannot be created or destroyed
What is the Law of Conservation of Energy?
The motion of molecules
What is thermal energy?
Energy stored in atomic bonds
What is chemical energy?
Using a stove plugged into the wall
What is from electric to thermal?
The element found in fossil fuels whose presence indicates that fossil fuels are organic matter
What is carbon?
This man showed that energy and matter can be converted between each other
Who is Albert Einstein?
Infrared and Microwaves belong to the spectrum of this energy type
What is radiant, light, or electromagnetic energy?
Fusion and fission release this kind of energy, stored in atomic nuclei
What is nuclear energy?
Using a gas-powered stove
What is from chemical to thermal?
A generator converts many sources of renewable energy into this type of energy
What is electric energy?
This is Mr. Adams' favorite form of energy
What is GPE?
Kinetic energy is quadratically related to this measurement
What is velocity?
Gravitational potential energy and height have this kind of relationship
What is directly related?
Eating a tomato and going on a run
What is from chemical to kinetic (mechanical)?
Refining this fossil fuel gives us gasoline, kerosene, and diesel, among others
What is petroleum?
The sum of an object's kinetic and potential energies
What is mechanical energy?
What is the 5kg bowling ball rolling at 3m/s?
(1/2)*5*32=45/2=22.5 Joules
(1/2)*10*22=40/2=20 Joules
Between a basketball one meter above the ground on Earth and an identical basketball one meter above the ground on the moon, the one with the greatest gravitational potential energy
What is the basketball on the Earth?
GPE=mgh, gEarth>gmoon
Letting go of a guitar string
What is from elastic to sound?
This source of renewable energy is the only one not ultimately traced back to the sun's energy
What is geothermal?
The octane provider that was put in gasoline in the 1920's due to its lower production cost (must give the full name of the chemical)
What is tetraethyl lead?