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the abillty to make a change or do work
EX: Electricity, Kinetic energy. |
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Stored energy that resaults from the position or shape of an object.
EX: A book has stored energy that we dont see because its not moving, it will use that energy when it moves. |
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ELASTIC POTENTIAL ENERGY
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Potential energy stored as a result of deformation of an elastic object
EX: the stretching of a spring |
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Energy in an object due to its motion
EX: When wind strikes a leaf, the leaf moves, and that movement is a change |
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GRAVITATIONAL POTENTIAL ENERGY
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Potential energy that depends on an obeject's height.
EX:Throwing a ball from the ground to the roof will take longer time from the roof to the ground
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MACHANICAL ENERGY
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The KE or PE of an object due to its motion or due to its position
EX: The roller coaster . |
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The energy a substance or system has related to its temperature.
EX: the sun, FIRE, volcano lava |
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Energy stored in chemical bonds
EX: 1.Light Bulbs
2.Plants changing the water and sunlight etc to form AIR (Photosynthesis)
3. food
4. body cells |
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ELECTRICAL ENERGY
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The energy of electrical charges.
EX: Lightning, shocks from doorknobs (the door's hand) |
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ELECTROMAGNETIC ENERGY
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The energy of light and other forms of radiation.
EX: light, Sun, X-Ray, Microwaves |
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Energy stored in the nucleus of an atom.
EX:Sun |
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The transfer of heat from one particle to another.
EX: wooden spoon in hot water. |
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The transfer of heat by the movement of currents within a fluid.
EX: Heating, Refrigerator |
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A material that forms over millions of years from the remains of ancient plants and animals, burned to form chemical energy.
EX: coal, oil and natural gas |
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LAW OF CONSERVATION OF ENERGY
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Joule James: who found (made) the law |
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The rule that energy can't be created or destroyed
EX: No human can creat electricity out of nothing, you can't destroy kinetic energy. |
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The transfer of energy by electromagnetic waves.
EX: Light. |
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ENERGY TRANSFORMATION
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The process of changing one form of energy to another.
EX: While biking the energy transforms for PE or KE, if you are moving, you are making KE, but when you stop, you change KE to PE. |
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RENEWABLE RESOURCES
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An organic natural resource that can replenish in due time compared to the usage, either through biological reproduction or other naturally recurring processes.
EX: Light energy, Water, wind. |
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NON RENEWABLE RESOURCES
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A resource that does not renew itself at a sufficient rate
EX: fossil fuels(such as: oil and coal) |
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Biological material derived from living, or recently living organisms
EX: plants |
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