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| Law of Conservation of Energy |
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| States that in a closed, isolated system, energy is not created or destroyed, but rather, is conserved |
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| A type of collision in which the kinetic energy before and after the collision remains the same |
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| the potential energy that may be stored in a n object, such as a rubber band, as a result of its change in shape. |
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| gravitational potential energy |
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| The stored energy in a system resulting from the gravitational force between Earth and the object |
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| a type of collision in which the kinetic energy after the collision is less than the kinetic energy before the collision. |
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| The energy of an object, resulting from its motion |
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| the sum of kinetic and gravitational potential energy of a system |
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| the position where gravitational potential energy is defined as zero |
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| rotational kinetic energy |
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| the kinetic energy of an object, proportional to the object's moment of inertia and the square of its angular velocity. |
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| a measure of the internal motion of an object's particles |
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