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*The ability to do work or cause change
Example:
Street Lights turning on.
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*Energy that an object has due to its motion
Example:
When wind lifts up a leaf.
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*stored energy that results from the position or shape of an object.
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a car on top of a hill |
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Gravitational Potential Energy
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*potential energy that depens on the height of an object.
Example:
how tall a hill is |
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Elastic Potential Energy
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*the energy of stretched or compressed objects.
Example:
a spring |
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Mechanical Energy
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*kinetic or potential energy associaled with the motion or position of an object.
Example:
a man pulling a string on a bow |
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*the total potential and kinetic energy of the particles in an object.
Example:
hot water
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Electrical Energy
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*the energy of electric changes
Example:
lightning |
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*the potential energy stored in chemical bonds.
Example:
battery potato |
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Energy trainsformation
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*the process of changing one from of energy to another
Example:
chenical to motion energy |
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Law of conservation of energy
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*the rule that energy canno't be created or destroyed
Example:
playing pool and the balls split apart |
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*a material shuch as coal that froms over millions of years from the remains of ancient plants and animals; burned to release chemical energy
Example:
fuel |
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*the transfer of burning a fuel to produce thermal energy
Example:
rocks in fire |
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*the transfer of heat from one particle of matter to another.
Example:
cooking cookies in a oven |
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*the transfer of heat by the movement of currents within a fluid
Example:
making tea in a tea pot |
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*the transfer of energy by electromagnetic waves
Example:
the sun lets out radiation by its heat |
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*a material that does not conduct heat well
Example:
Copper |
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*A material that does not conduct heat well
Example:
papper |
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Electromagnic energy
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*the energy of electric changes
Example:
magnit that picks up cars |
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*the potential energy stored in the nucleus of an atom.
Example:
an explosion
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