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Ciencia Fisica, C 5
Ch. 5 Energia/Energy
Question | Answer |
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energia/energy | la capacidad de realizar trabajo/the ability to do work and cause a change to occur |
energia cinetica/kinetic energy | energia en forma de movimiento/energy a moving object has because of its motion;depends on the mass and speed of the object |
energia potencial/potential energy | energia almacenada en un cuerpo sin movimiento/stored energy an object has due to its position |
energia potencial elastica/elastic potential energy | energia almacenada por cosas que se estiran y encogen/energy stored when an object is compressed or stretched |
energia potencial gravitatoria/gravitational potential energy | energia almacenada por cosas que estan sobre la Tierra/energy stored by objects due to their position above Earth's surface;depends on the distance above Earth's surface and the object's mass |
energia potencial quimica/chemical potential energy | energia almacenada en los enlaces quimicos/energy stored in chemical bonds |
joule/joule | la unidad modelo para medir la energia/ SI unit of energy |
energia mecanica/mechanical energy | la cantidad total de energia potencial y cinetica en un sistema/sum of the potential energy and kenetic energy in a system |
ley de conservacion de la energia/law of conservation of energy | la energia puede cambiar de una forma a otra, pero la cantidad total de energia nunca cambia/states that energy can never be created or destroyed |