Vocabulary: Types of Energy

Motion

the act or process of changing position.

Speed

?=Distance/time

? is a rate of motion

Energy

the ability to cause change, the ability to do work, measured in Joules.

Force

the ability to cause change, ( a push or a pull) measured in Newtons

Frame of Reference

A place to which the position of an object or the motion of an object can be described.

Work

?=force/distance

Kinetic energy

Energy in the form of motion being currently used.

Potential energy

Stored energy, not being used energy stored within an object due to it’s postion.

Law of conservation of energy

Energy can not be created or destroyed. Can only be converted or transferred.

Conversion (or transformation)

Energy can only be converted (change type)

Transfer

Transferred to one object to another (change object

Kinetic energy

The amount of kinetic energy an object has depends on it, as an objects speed increases it’s KE as an objects mass increases, its KE.

Gravitational potential energy

The amount of GPE an object has depends on its, as an objects height increases its GPE, as an object mass increases, it’s GPE