Energy Adds Up Flashcards
Ehat can energy not do?
Be created or disappear
What can energy only do?
Be transferred
What is the law called when energy cannot be created or destroyed only transferred called?
Law of conservation of energy
What can you think of energy as?
Chemical store?
How can energy be transferred form a store?
When you burn a fuel or respire
Ehats the chemical store?
Food, fuels, batteries
Ehat is the thermal store
Hot objects
What is kinetic store
Moving objects
Ehat is gravitational potential store?
Position in a gravitational field
What is elastic store?
Changing shape, stretching or squashing
During burning-
Ehat happens after when theres more energy in thr chemical store and less in the thermal
When its burnt there will be more energy in thr thermal store and less in the chemical store
What would you see if you measured energy in chemical and thermal store?
Total energy before=total energy after
What are some ways of transferring energy around stores?
Electric current
Light
Sound
Where do you want the burning fuel in the car to be transferred to?
Kinteic store of the car
Where is energy transferred in many situations
The thermal stire of the surroundings.