Chapter 5 energy vocab

a ball on the top of a building has this type of ENERGY

• Electrical

• Sound

• Thermal

• Gravitational Potential Energy

The ability to do work of cause changes

• energy

• motion

• force

• power

The state in which one object's distance from another is changing

• energy

• motion

• force

• power

A material in which a wave travels

• medium

• nuclear

• sound

• light

Potential energy that depends on the height of an object

• gravitational potential energy

• elastic potential energy

• kinetic energy

• mechanical energy

A wave in which the disturbance is parallel to the direction the wave travels

• longitudinal wave

• transverse wave

When a roller coaster is at the bottom of a hill it has

• high potential energy

• high kinetic energy

• low kinetic energy

• equal amounts of kinetic and potential energy

When energy is changed from one form to another

• medium

• energy transformation

• Energy switchback

• law of conservation of energy

The energy of stretched or compressed objects

• gravitational potential energy

• elastic potential energy

• kinetic energy

• mechanical energy

When energy is moved from one object to another

• Energy transfer

• Energy switchback

• Give and take theory

• Medium