Potential and Kinetic Energy

Front

What is Energy?

Back

The ability to cause change

Front

What is an example of kinetic energy?

Back

A car driving on the highway

Front

What is an example of potential energy?

Back

A car parked in a lot

Front

Which has more potential energy? Options: A bird in a tree, A car in the garage, An airplane before takeoff, A child on a swing

Back

A bird in a tree

Front

Energy cannot be created or destroyed.

Back

True

Front

Total energy will always change in a system of objects.

Back

False; energy cannot be destroyed, only transferred.

Front

What is thermal energy?

Back

The sum of the potential and kinetic energy of the particles that make up an object.

Front

Friction

Back

A force that resists the sliding of two objects that are touching

Front

At what position does the pendulum have the greatest gravitational potential energy?

Back

Position D

Front

At what position does the pendulum have the greatest kinetic energy?

Back

Position B