Forms of Energy
The energy stored in a battery or food.
What is chemical energy?
A solar panel.
What is light to electrical energy?
The full word for the units for energy.
What is a Joule/Joules? or Kg x m2/s2
The energy of motion
What is Kinetic energy?
The number 1,482.69 has this many significant figures.
What is 6 significant figures?
The energy of particles moving through a wire.
What is electrical energy?
A person eats a meal and goes for a run.
What is chemical to mechanical?
9.8 or 9.81 m/s2
The formula and units for velocity
what is distance/time and m/s?
The number 534,000 has this many significant figures
Two ways we experience energy.
What is light and sound?
An old car.
What is chemical (gas) to mechanical?
Give me 2 of the 3 things needed to calculate potential energy.
What is mass, gravity, and height?
This form of energy relates to the amount of energy stored in an object due to its position.
What is gravitational potential energy?
The number 5623.0 has this many significant figures.
What is 5 significant figures?
The energy stored in atoms.
What is nuclear energy?
A Roller Coaster.
What is electrical to mechanical?
The equations for both kinetic and potential energy.
KE = 1/2mv2
PE = mgh
The force that opposes movement on a surface.
What is friction?
The number 0.0042030 has this many significant figures.
What is 5 significant figures?
In an open system, energy is most often lost in this form.
What is thermal energy?
A TV.
What is electrical to sound and light energy?
Describe the relationship between kinetic and potential energy we saw in our Roller Coaster Lab.
Inverse - as kinetic goes up, potential goes down and vice versa
The Law of Conservation of Energy
What is energy cannot be created or destroyed; only transformed?
The number 486.02000 has this many significant figures
What is 8 significant figures?