Potential Energy
Examples
Science Math
Vocabulary
Kinetic Energy
100

This is a type of potential energy associated with an object's distance above the ground.

What is gravitational energy?
100

This is what you would need other than the kinetic energy transferring from a hammer to a nail to consider work being done.

What is the nail moving.

100

Between Vehicle A which weighs 1000 kg and is going 30 mph and Vehicle B which weighs 1000 kg and is going 50 mph, this is the vehicle with the least kinetic energy.

What is Vehicle A?

100

The ability to do work or cause changes in matter.

What is energy?

100

This is a type of kinetic energy associated with heat.

What is thermal energy?

200

This is a type of potential energy stored in the chemical bonds of a substance.

What is chemical energy?

200

This is why the balloon did not hit O'rynn in the face.

What is lose of energy or gravity.

200

Force x Distance = ?

What is work?

200

This is the energy of motion.

What is kinetic energy?
200

This is a type of kinetic energy associated with charges.

What is electrical energy

300

This is a type of potential energy stored in the nucleus of an atom.

What is nuclear energy.

300

This is the reason a car going the same speed as a bike has more energy.

What is it has more mass.

300

1/2 ( ? x velocity)2 = kinetic energy

What is mass?

300

This is stored energy due to an objects position or condition.

What is potential energy?

300

This is a type of kinetic energy associated with vibrations.

What is sound energy?

400

This is a type of potential energy in a stretched or compressed object.

What is elastic energy?

400

This is the type of energy a roller coaster has at the bottom of a hill. 

What is kinetic energy?

400

mass  x  9.8 m/s2  x  ?  =  gravitational potential energy

What is height?

400

The transfer of energy to an object by a force that causes the object to move.

What is work?

400

This is a type of kinetic energy associated with light.

What is electromagnetic energy?

500

This is where a roller coaster will have the most gravitational potential energy.

What is at the top of a hill?

500
This is the energy a skateboarder has halfway down a ramp.

What is kinetic and potential energy?

500

This is how much work a robot uses 20 Newtons of force to move a 20 kg package 30 meters.

What is 500 joules?

500
This is a group of interacting parts that move or work together.

What is a system?

500

This is what you could change on a car going as fast as it can go to increase its kinetic energy.

What is add more mass?