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Power/Energy Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Energy | The power to change things and the ability to do work |
| Elastic Potential Energy | The energy stored in any type of stretched or elastic material |
| Gravitational Potential Energy | Any System of 2 or more objects separated by a distance |
| Kinetic Energy | The energy of a moving object |
| Electrical Energy | the movement of electrical charges |
| Radiant energy | electromagnetic waves that travel in transverse waves |
| Sound Energy | the movement of energy through substances in longitudinal (compression/rarefaction) Waves |
| Thermal Energy | or heat, is the internal energy in substances |
| Motion Energy | the movement of objects and substances from one place to another |
| Chemical Energy | energy stored in the bonds of atoms and molecules |
| Nuclear Energy | energy stored in the nucleus of an atom |
| Nuclear Fission | Nuclear power plants split the nuclei of uranium atoms in a process called fission |
| Nuclear Fusion | The sun combines the nuclei of hydrogen atoms in a process called fusion. |
| Mechanical Energy | The sum of the kinetic and potential energy of large scale objects |
| NonMechanical Energy | Energy that doesn't involve large scale motion or position of objects in a system |
| Work | only when force causes a change in motion of an object in the direction of the applied force |
| Power | the rate at which work is done |
| Potential energy | stored energy resulting from the relative positions |
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Kelly Arledge
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