Vocabulary and Conceptual Questions

______ is the product of the component of force along the direction of displacement and the amount of displacement.

• Acceleration
• Distance
• Energy
• Work

_______ is the rate of energy transferred by any method.

• Force
• Power
• Scalar
• Work

Energy associated with an object in motion is _______.

• elastic potential energy
• gravitational potential energy
• kinetic energy
• mechanical energy

______ is energy present in an object that has the potential to move because of its position relative to some other location.

• Elastic potential energy
• Gravitational potential energy
• Mechanical energy
• Potential energy

___________ is energy stored in a stretched or compressed spring.

• Chemical energy
• Elastic potential energy
• Kinetic energy
• Mechanical energy

_____ is energy associated with an object due to the object's position relative to a gravitational source.

• Gravitational potential energy
• Kinetic energy
• Mechanical energy
• Solar energy

______ is the length of a spring when no external forces are acting on it.

• Acceleration
• Displacement
• Equilibrium length
• Relaxed length

_____ is the sum of kinetic energy and all forms of potential energy.

• Accumulative energy
• Mechanical energy
• Nuclear energy
• Total motion energy

The product of an object's mass and its velocity is _____.

• energy
• force
• momentum
• power

_______ is a collision in which objects collide and move together as one mass.

• Elastic collision
• Inelastic collision
• Perfectly elastic collision
• Perfectly inelastic collision