Fast and Curious: Mechanical Energy (8th)

Energy due to motion

• Kinetic Energy

• Potential Energy

• Elastic Potential Energy

• Mechanical Energy

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Stored energy due to the interactions between objects or particles

• Kinetic Energy

• Potential Energy

• Elastic Potential Energy

• Mechanical Energy

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Energy stored in objects that are compressed or stretched, such as springs and rubber bands.

• kinetic energy

• potential energy

• elastic potential energy

• gravitational potential energy

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Stored energy due to the interactions of objects in a gravitational field

• kinetic energy

• potential energy

• elastic potential energy

• gravitational potential energy

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Sum of potential energy and the kinetic energy in a system

• Potential Energy

• Mechanical Energy

• Work

• Kinetic Energy

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Law that states that energy is always transferring, but energy is not created or destroyed

• Law of conservation of energy

• Work

• Gravitational Potential Energy

• Mechanical Energy

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The transfer of energy to an object by a force that makes an object move in the direction of the force.

• Work

• Energy

• Kinetic Energy

• Potential Energy

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Which statement is not true about energy?

• Energy is the ability to do work

• Energy is neither created or destroyed

• There are many forms of energy, but they can all be categorized as kinetic or potential

• Potential energy is the energy of motion

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What is Energy measured in?

• Watts

• Newtons

• Ohms

• Joules

A rubber ball is dropped and bounces back up. The ball has ______________.

• zero potential energy at A

• Zero kinetic energy at C

• Both kinetic and potential energy at A

• both kinetic and potential energy at C

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