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Week 16 Vocabulary -
energy force
Question | Answer |
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1.)Law of Conservation of Energy | Energy can neither be created nor destroyed, but can be change from one form to another |
2.)Mechanical Energy | The energy possessed by an object due to its motion or its stored energy of position. It can either be kinetic or potential. |
3.)Kinetic Energy | Energy in motion |
4.)Potential Energy | Stored energy |
5.)Energy Transfer | When energy passes from one place to another |
6.)Energy | The ability to do work or to cause change |
7.)Joule | A unit of work equal to one newton-meter |
8.)Convection | The transfer of thermal energy by the movement of a fluid (liquid or gas) |
9.)Conduction | The direct transfer of thermal energy from one substance to another substance that it is touching |
10.)Radiation | The direct transfer of energy by electromagnetic waves |