Energy Transformations

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What is energy stored by things that stretch or compress?

Back

Elastic potential energy.

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What type of energy does a battery convert?

Back

Chemical → electrical.

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What type of energy is stored in a battery?

Back

Chemical energy.

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What energy transformations occur in a lamp that plugs into a wall socket?

Back

Electrical → thermal → light.

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When does a baseball have the greatest gravitational potential energy?

Back

When it reaches its highest point.

Front

What is gravitational potential energy?

Back

Energy an object possesses due to its position in a gravitational field.

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What is kinetic energy?

Back

Energy an object has due to its motion.

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What is the law of conservation of energy?

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Energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed from one form to another.

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What is thermal energy?

Back

Energy that comes from the temperature of matter; it is the total kinetic energy of particles in an object.

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What is chemical energy?

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Energy stored in the bonds of chemical compounds, like atoms and molecules.