Energy, Motion, and Forces Vocab

The ability to cause change.

• Energy

• Work

• Force

• Velocity

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The Energy of Motion

• Potential Energy

• Kinetic Energy

• Mechanical Energy

• Vector

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Stored energy that an object has due to its position, condition, or chemical composition.

• Potential Energy

• Kinetic Energy

• Positional Energy

• Mechanical Energy

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Kinetic Energy PLUS the potential energy due to position.

• Inertia

• Situational Energy

• Law of Conservation of Energy

• Mechanical Energy

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Energy can neither be created nor destroyed. It can only be transformed.

• Potential Energy

• Kinetic Energy

• Law of Conservation of Energy

• Transformational Energy

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The location of an object

• Velocity

• Vector

• Referral Point

• Position

Location to which other locations are compared.

• Vector

• Reference Point

• Referral Point

• Position

Change in position over time.

• Motion

• Speed

• Velocity

• Velociraptor

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Speed

• Measure of how far something traveled.

• Measure of how fast something is going.

• Measure of how far something moves in a given amount of time.

• A point of reference in a given amount of time.

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A quantity that has both size (magnitude) and direction.

• Velocity

• Vector

• Viper

• Vicinity