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The ability to make change or do work
Example: When a ball rolls it is changing and the person pushing it is doing work. |
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energy that an object has due to its motion
EX: a water fall |
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stored energy that results from the position or shape of the object.
EX: a person sleeping |
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GRAVITATIONAL ENERGY
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potential energy that depends on the hight of the object
EX: A long stick in the ground |
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ELASTIC POTENTIAL ENERGY
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the energy of streached or compressed energy
EX: a slinky getting squished or extended |
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MECHANICAL ENERGY
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kinetic or potential energy assosiated with the motion or position of an object
EX: a roller coaster |
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the total potential and kinetic of the particles in an object
EX: rubbing your hands together |
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ELECTRICAL ENERGY
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the energy of electrical charges
EX: lightning |
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the potential energy stored in chemical bonds
EX: a battery |
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ENERGY TRANSFORMATION
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the prosses of changing one form of energy to another
EX: hydroelectrisity |
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the potential energy stored in the nuculus of an atom
EX: a power plant |
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ELECTROMAGNETIC ENERGY
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the energy of light and other forms of radiation
EX: atomic bomb |
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LAW OF CONSERVATION OF ENERGY
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the rule that energy cannot be created of destroyed
EX: water |
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| a material such as coal that forms over millions of years from the remains of ancient. |
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the prosses of burning a fuel to poduse thermal energy
EX: fire |
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the transfer of heat from one particle to another
EX: a spoon in hot water |
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the transfer of heat by movement of currents
EX: water in the pacific ocean |
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