Kinetic Energy
Potential Energy
Definitions
Simple Machines/Efficiency
100

The energy of motion

What is Kinetic Energy?

100

stored energy

What is potential energy?

100

The ability to do work

What is energy?

100

What does AMA and IMA represent?

What is actual mechanical advantage and a ideal mechanical advantage

200

Kinetic energy is measured in (what units)

What is Joules?

200

Name two types of potential energy

What is GPE and EPE?

200

Energy stored by things that stretch

What is Elastic Potential Energy?

200

Name 3 types of simple machines

What is incline plane, lever, wedge, screw, wheel & axel, or pulley?

300

The kinetic energy formula

KE=0.5mv2

300

What happens to potential energy once an object starts moving?

What is converted to kinetic energy?

300

Energy stored by things above Earth

What is Gravitational Potential Energy?

300

If a simple machine is 82% efficient, what does that mean

That means 82% of the energy is converted to work/KE

400

What is an example of kinetic energy at work?

  • A. A ball lodged in a tree

  • B. A frisbee flying through the air

  • C. A car in the garage





 

What is

B. A frisbee flying through the air?

400

What plays a major role in Gravitational Potential Energy

What is mass, gravity or height?

400

How “helpful” the machine is. This number represents how many times the effort force is magnified by the machine.

Mechanical Advantage


400

Fill in the blank:

When a machine is less than 100% efficient, some mechanical energy was converted to __________

What is heat?

500

Rearrange the equation for kinetic energy to make velocity the subject of the equation

What is v = √(KE/0.5m)?

500

What must be necessary to solve for Elastic Potential Energy

What is a spring or an elastic?

500

The Law of conservation of energy is

What is Energy cannot be created or destroyed; it may be transformed from one form to another, but the total amount of energy never changes?

500

1000 J of energy is input into a simple machine. The machine is 70% efficient.

How many joules of energy is transferred through the machine to do work?



What is 700J?