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 13 m/s and Vehicle B which weighs 1000 kg and is going 22 m/s, 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

Your iPhone sits on your desk, but Ms. Dakin asks you to put it on the top shelf of your locker. This is the location where your iPhone has the greatest GPE.

What is your locker's shelf?

200

Force ⋅ Distance = ?

What is work?

200

This is the energy of motion.

What is kinetic energy?
200

This is the type of kinetic energy associated with light.

What is electromagnetic 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 ⋅ ? ⋅(velocity)2 = kinetic energy

What is mass?

300

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

What is potential energy?

300

A dog sitting on your bed and water being poured in a glass. This has kinetic energy.

What is the water?

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  ⋅  9.8 m/s2  ⋅  ?  =  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 variable of the kinetic energy formula has the greatest effect.

What is velocity?

500

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

What is at the top of a hill?

500

The law of energy that states energy can neither be created or destroyed.

What is the Law of Conservation of Energy?

500

This is how the amount of KE a 70 kg robot has when walking at a pace of 1 meter per second.

What is 35 joules?

500

This is the passing of energy from one object to another.

What is energy transfer?

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?