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Energy Transformations
Potential and Kinetic
Types of Energy
Definitions
100
Burning a candle.
Chemical energy -> heat energy + light energy
100

What is the process of saving up or storing energy?

Potential energy.

100
Energy that has the ability to fall; this type of energy increases the higher up you go.
Gravitational potential energy.
100
Energy is defined as _________.
The ability to do work.
200
Using a hot plate to boil water.
Electrical energy -> heat energy
200
What is the process of spending energy or energy in motion.
Kinetic energy.
200
"You can burn it or you can eat it."
Chemical energy.
200

List the factors that affect kinetic energy (2 things)

Mass and velocity

300
A hungry football player eating a large sandwich to use the food for energy.
Chemical energy -> mechanical energy
300
A heavy vase on a table has this type of energy.
(Gravitational) potential energy.
300
This type of energy is generated by a force - a push or a pull.
Mechanical energy.
300
What is mechanical energy?

The sum of kinetic and potential energy

400
Using a solar-powered calculator.
Radiant energy -> electrical energy ->light energy
400
A person running down the sidewalk has this type of energy.
(Mechanical) kinetic energy.
400
This type of energy is caused by vibrations
Sound energy.
400

what are the factors that affect gravitational potential energy (2 things)

Height and mass

500
A solar panel on the roof of a building used to heat and cool the building.
Radiant energy -> electrical energy
500
A person that has just jumped from an airplane has this type of energy. (2 types)
(Gravitational) potential and kinetic energy.
500

The sun of what types of energy (2 types)

Heat and electromagnetic (radiant)

500
What is work?
the transfer of energy that occurs when an object exerts a force to another object, making it move