Energy

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What is an energy store?
Where energy is stored when transferred.
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The first four energy stores are...
Thermal, kinetic, gravitational potential, elastic potential.
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The second four energy stores are...
Chemical, magnetic, electrostatic, nuclear.
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What are the ways energy is transferred?
Mechanically, electrically, by heating, by radiation.
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A force doing work is transferred...
Mechanically.
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Work done by moving charges is transferred...
Electrically.
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Light and sound is trasferred...
By radiation.
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What is a system?
An object or a group of objects.
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What happens when a system changes?
Energy is transferred.
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What is work done?
Another way of saying energy transferred.
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Energy can be transferred...
By heating, a system changing or doing work.
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Kinetic eenergy is...
Movement.
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What is the word equation for kinetic energy?
0.5 * mass * speed^2
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What is the symbol equation for kinetic energy?
Ek = 0.5mv^2
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Gravitational potential energy is...
Lifted or falling objects.
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What is the word equation for gravitational potential energy?
mass * height * gravitatinal field strength
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What is gravitational field strength?
9.8
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What is the symbol equation for gravitational potential energy?
Ep = mgh
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Elastic potential energy is...
Stretching or squashing objetcs.
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What is the word equation for elastic potential energy?
0.5 * spring constant * extension^2
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What is the symbol equation for elastic potential energy?
Ee = 0.5ke^2
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Energy is measured in...
Joules (J)
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In the energy topic, mass is measured in...
Kilograms (Kg)
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Speed is measured in...
Metres per second (m/s)
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Height is measured in...
Metres (m)
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Gravitational field strength is measured in...
Newtons per kilograms (N/Kg)
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Spring constant is measured in...
Newtons per metres (N/m)
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Extension is measured in...
Metres (m)
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What is specific heat capacity?
How much energy needed to raise the temperature of 1Kg of a substance by 1 degree celcius.
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What is the equation linking with specific heat capacity?
Change in thermal energy = mass * specific heat capacity * temperature change
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Specific heat capacity is measured in...
Joules per kilograms degrees celcius (J/KgC)
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What does the specific heat capacity practical involve?
Find the mass and temperature of different metals before and after power is switched on.
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What is the conservation of energy principle?
No energy can be created or destroyed.
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