Vocab
Units of Measurment
Kinetic Energy
Potential Energy
100

Energy of motion.

What is Kinetic Energy?

100

kg

what is mass

100

What is the kinetic energy of a 10kg car that is moving at 4 m/s.

KE= 80 J

100

There is a box at the top of a hill that is 10 m high and the box has a mass of 20kg. What is the potential energy of the box? (g=9.8)

PE= 1,960 J

200

Energy stored in an object based of its position.

What is Potential Energy?

200

m/s

What is velocity

200

A cat has 400 J of kinetic energy and moves at 10 m/s. What is the mass of the cat?

8kg = m

200

A 30 kg child climbs 15 meters up a tree. When he stops to have a look around, what is the child's potential energy?

PE= 4,410 J

300

type of energy whos formula mgh (mass X gravity X height)

What is potential energy?

300

joules

What is energy

300

You serve a volleyball with a mass of 2.1 kg. The ball leaves your hand with a speed of 30 m/s. Calculate the balls kinetic energy. 

KE= 945 J

300

A full sized glider has a mass of 490 kg, while its pilot weights 82.5kg. If its 1,000 meters off the ground, how much potential energy do the plane and pilot have?

PE= 5,610,500 J

400

Process where energy is moved from one store to another.

What is energy transfer?

400

Gravity is always.

what is 9.8 m/s?

400

A model glider has has a mass of 1 kg and a velocity of 2.2 m/s. How much kinetic energy does it have?

KE= 2.42 J

400

There is a 10 kg box at the top of a tower that is storing 490 joules of energy. What is the height of the tower? (g=9.8)

5m =h

500

The kinetic energy formula.

What is KE=1/2 m X v^2

500

m/s^2

what is gravity

500

What is the velocity of a 500 kg elevator that has 4,000 J of energy?

4 m/s = V

500

The potential energy of a box is 1960 joules. The box is 20 m high. What is the mass of the box? (g=9.8)

10kg =m