Potential and Kinetic Energy Vocabulary

The ability to cause a change

• Energy

• Increase

• Decrease

• Gravity

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Energy in moving things

• Kinetic Energy

• Potential Energy

• Transfer

• Convert

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Potential energy is stored due to:

• The rate at which an object moves

• The distance between interacting objects or particles changing

• The original position of an object

• An object's elasticity

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Gravitational potential energy is:

• Energy due to an object’s speed

• Energy stored due to the interactions of objects in a gravitational field

• Energy released during motion

• Energy proportional to elasticity

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Energy of Motion

• System

• Joule

• Potential Energy

• Kinetic Energy

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Energy that is stored in a system or object

• Energy

• Kinetic Energy

• Potential Energy

• Energy Transformation

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Objects at rest have (a)   because of their ​ (b)   . This is called ​ (c)  

• stored energy

• position

• potential energy

• kinetic energy

• motion

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Energy that is stored in a system or object.

• energy

• kinetic energy

• potential energy

• system

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Energy of motion

• total energy

• kinetic energy

• potential energy

• energy

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Define: Potential Energy

• Energy of motion.

• Stored energy in an object due to its position.

• Energy of speed.

• Stored energy in an object due to its speed.

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