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Forms of Energy
Term | Definition |
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Energy | the ability to cause changes in matter |
Mechanical Energy | the total potential and kinetic energy of an object |
Potential Energy | energy that an object has because of its position or its condition |
Kinetic Energy | the energy an object has because of motion |
Electrical Energy | energy that comes from electric current |
Chemical Energy | energy that can be released by a chemical reaction |
Thermal Energy | the total amount of kinetic energy of the particles in a substance |
temperature | the measure of the average energy of motion of particles of matter which we feel as how hot or cold something is |
Heat | the energy that moves between objects of different temperatures |
Electric current | the flow of electric charges along a path |