Energy
Ability to cause change
What is energy?
Energy of motion
What is Kinetic Energy?
Energy that is stored
What is potential energy?
Energy of motion
What is Kinetic Energy?
The energy of moving molecules
What is Thermal Energy?
KE=½ MV to the second power
What is the equation for kinetic energy?
Stored Energy
What is Potential Energy?
m=mass
In the equation MGH what is M?
Joule
What is KE measured in?
Conduction is the transfer of thermal energy
What is conduction?
GPE=mgh
What is the equation for Gravitational Potential Energy?
From position above earth
What is Gravitational PE?
G=accel do to gravity
What is G in MGH?
M=Mass
What is M in the Kinetic Energy equation?
Materials that are good conductors of thermal energy
What are thermal conductors?
Bands and springs
What is Elastic Potential energy?
The energy of moving molecules
What is Thermal Energy?
H=height (m)
In MGH what is H?
V=Velocity
What is V in the KE Equation?
Convection is the transfer of thermal energy by particles moving through a liquid
What is convection?
Fuels and food
What is Chemical Potential Energy?
Energy that is trapped inside each atom
What is Nuclear Energy?
A bow an arrow has stored energy because of its position
What is an example for potential energy?
A skateboard going downhill
What is an example of KE?
Radiation is the transfer of energy through waves
What is radiation?