Kinetic & Potential Energy
Energy types
Energy Transformations
Heat Transfers
Calculations
100

What is the ability to do work?

Energy

100

When you eat fruits and vegetables, what type of energy are you consuming? 

Chemical

100

Define energy transformation

An energy transformation is when energy changes from one form to another.

100

Heat is what type of energy?

Thermal energy.

100

What is the unit for energy?

Joules.

200

What is the energy of movement?

Kinetic Energy

200

What types of energy are you experiencing when you listen to music?

Sound energy

200
Describe the Law of Conservation of Energy.

Energy cannot be created or destroyed, only changed from form to form.

200

Name the three types of heat transfers

Conduction, convection, radiation.

200

What is the formula for potential energy?

PE = mgh or PE = weight x height

300

What is the energy of position?

Potential Energy

300

Describe mechanical energy.

The total energy of motion and position of an object.

300

Describe the energy transformation when you use a toaster oven.

Electrical energy is converted into thermal energy.
300

Circulating warm and cool currents in ocean water is an example of what type of heat transfer?

Convection.

300

What is the formula for kinetic energy?

(0.5)mv2

400

On a pendulum, where is the most kinetic energy found?

At the bottom of the swing. 

400

Describe two energy types that are considered kinetic energy and two that are considered potential energy.

Kinetic: thermal, sound, electrical

Potential: chemical, elastic potential, gravitational potential

400

Give an example of electrical energy transforming to light energy.

A lamp, etc.

400

What type of thermal energy transfer takes place when a hot curling iron is touching someone's hair?

Conduction.

400

How much gravitational potential energy does a water droplet weighing 0.2 Newtons have with a height of 2 meters?

0.4 Joules

500

On a roller coaster, where is the most potential energy found?

At the very top of the roller coaster/before it begins.

500

Describe 4 types of energy you are experiencing right now

Light, chemical, potential, sound, etc.

500

Describe the energy transformation that a person riding a bicycle would go through, if his process starts by eating a snack in the kitchen.

Chemical --> mechanical --> thermal
500

Heat transfer always goes from ___ objects to ____ objects.

Hot objects to cooler objects.

500

How much kinetic energy does a 0.005 kg bug have that is crawling 20 meters every 2 seconds?

0.25 Joules