Energy Stores Flashcards
1
Q
What is a system?
A
An object
2
Q
What are the different stores of energy?
A
- Kinetic
- Gravitational potential
- Chemical
- Elastic potential
- Nuclear
- Thermal
- Electrostatic
- Electromagnetic
3
Q
What is kinetic energy?
A
Stored in objects movement
4
Q
What is gravitational potental?
A
energy stored in objects raised above earth’s surface
5
Q
What is chemical energy?
A
energy stored by chemical bonds between atoms
6
Q
What is elastic potential?
A
energy stored when an object is stretched or compressed
7
Q
What is the nuclear store?
A
- energy stored in nucleus of atom
2. can be released by radioactive decay
