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chapter 17
vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Energy | The ability to do work or cause a change |
| Kinetic energy | The enegy that an object has due to its motion |
| Potential energy | is energy that an object has because of its position or shape |
| Combustion | is the process in which a fuel burns because it cambines rapidly with oxygen |
| Energy efficiency | is an expression of how much of the energy put into a system actually does useful work |
| renewable energy | are nearly always available somewhere on Earth's surface,or they are replaced in a relatively short time |
| nonrenewable energy | in contrast cannot be replaced |
| Electricity | which is energy made available by the flow of an electric charge |