Energy, Work, and Simple Machines

The ability to cause a change.

• energy

• work

• transform

• pulley

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-2

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-5

Object that has energy because it is in motion.

• potential energy

• kinetic energy

• transform

• work

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS3-1

NGSS.MS-PS3-5

Stored energy that depends on the interaction of objects, particles, or atoms

• kinetic energy

• work

• potential energy

• transform

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS3-2

Form of kinetic energy that an electric current carries.

• transform

• energy transformation

• sound energy

• electric energy

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS3-5

Sum of potential energy and kinetic energy in a system of objects.

• mechanical energy

• seismic energy

• sound energy

• electric energy

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

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

• electric energy

• thermal energy

• potential energy

• kinetic energy

Transferred by waves moving through the ground.

• nuclear energy

• kinetic energy

• potential energy

• seismic energy

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Conversion of energy from one form to another

• energy transformation

• work

• potential energy

• kinetic energy

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-5

States that energy can be transformed from one form to another, but cannot be created or destroyed.

• law of conservation of matter

• law of conservation of electric charge

• law of conservation of energy

• law of conservation of probability

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-5

Transfer of energy that occurs when a force makes an object move in the direction of the force while the force acts on the object.

• energy

• vacuum

• transform

• work

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS3-5