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Work and Energy Notes (Etkina 6 & Knight 8.3 & 10) Flashcards

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work is equivalent to changes in the system’s

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energy

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higher above Earth: greater

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gravitational potential energy

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faster an object is moving: greater

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kinetic energy

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elastic potential energy is the energy associated with an elastic object’s

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degree of stretch

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greater stretch/compression: greater

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elastic potential energy

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energy associated with both temperature and structure is called

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internal energy

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when the external force is in the direction of the object’s displacement, the external force does …, causing the system to …

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positive work; gain energy

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if the external force points opposite a system object’s displacement, the external force does …, causing the system’s energy to …

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negative work; decrease

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in the external force points perpendicular to a system object’s displacement, the external force does … work on the system, causing … to its energy

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zero; no change

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work is a … physical quantity. F is always …, distance (d) is always …. Only … can negate the value for work

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scalar; positive; positive; the angle

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if there is no work done on the system, the energy of the system should be

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constant

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energy is a … quantity: it is constant in an … system and changes as a result of … done on a … system

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conserved; isolated; work; nonisolated

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law of conservation of energy: the sum of the initial energies of a system plus the work done on the system by external forces equals the sum of the

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final energies of the system

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it is preferable to have a … system so that the changes occurring can be included as … within the system rather than as the … done by external forces

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larger; energy changes; work

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the gravitational potential energy of an object-Earth system is Ug =

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mgy

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y is the position of the object with respect to the … of a … coordinate system

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zero; vertical

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if earth is not included in the system, earth would be an … doing … on the system. The choice of system, though, … affect the result of analysis

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external object; positive work; does not

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when you stretch or compress an elastic spring-like object, you have to pull or push harder the more the object is stretched or compressed. the force is not …

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constant

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the coefficient of proportionality, k, in the equation F= kx, is called the ….

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spring constant

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… springs have larger values of k

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stiffer

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for k = 1 N/m, to stretch a spring by 1.0 m we would have to exert a

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1.0 N force

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Hooke’s law: if any object causes a spring to stretch/compress, the spring exerts an … on that object. The spring constant k is measured in N/m and is a measure of the …. of the spring
X or l is the … that the object has been stretched/compressed
F =

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elastic force; stiffness; distance; kx

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elastic potential energy equation: Us =

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1/2kx^2

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a change in the internal energy can be caused by

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friction

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change in internal (thermal) energy =

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friction force * d

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for change in internal energy, friction force is …, increase in internal is shared between the … and the …

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average; moving object; surface

27
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the rate at which conversion of energy occurs is called

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power

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the power of a process is the amount of some type of … converted into a different type divided by the … in which the process occurred. if the process involves external forces doing work, then power can also be defined as the magnitude of the … done on or by the system divided by the … needed for that work to be done

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energy; time interval; work; time interval

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power is defined in …, which is …

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watts; 1 joule/second

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1 horsepower (hp) = … W

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746

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a force that restored a system to an equilibrium position is called a …. systems that exhibit such restoring forces are called …

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restoring force; elastic

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when no forces act on a spring to compress or extend it, it will rest at its …

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equilibrium length

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spring force is proportional to the … of the end of the spring –> … relationship

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displacement; linear

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if k is large, it takes a … pull to cause a significant stretch, and we call the spring a “…” spring. If k is small, we can stretch the spring with …. force, and we call it a “…” spring

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large; stiff; very little; soft

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energy of one kind can be … into energy of another kind

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transformed

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energy transformations are changes of energy … the system from one form to another

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within

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an exchange of energy between system and environment is called an …. Two primary processes: … and …

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energy transfer; work; heat

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work: … transfer of energy to or from a system by …/… it

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mechanical; pushing; pulling

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heat: … transfer of energy from the environment to the system (or vice versa) because of a … between the two

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nonmechanical; temperature difference

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no work is done on an …. system, and therefore, the total energy of such a system is …

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isolated; conserved

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in order for energy to be transferred as work, the system must undergo a … during the time that the force is applied

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displacement

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the larger the displacement, the … the work done. the stronger the force, the … the work done

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greater; greater

43
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the … is the unit of all forms of energy

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joule

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work is a … quantity, having a magnitude but no …

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scalar; direction

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a force does the greatest possible amount of work on an object when the force points in the … as the object’s …

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same direction; displacement

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the sign of work is determined entirely by the … between the … and the …

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angle theta; force; displacement

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the total work is the sum of the work done by each …. and represents the total … to the system from the environment or from the system to the environment

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force; energy transfer

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if the object undergoes no displacement while the force acts, … work is done. a force … to the displacement does no work. if the part of the object on which the force acts undergoes …, no work is done

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no; perpendicular; no displacement

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translational kinetic energy: kinetic energy of an object moving along a … or some other …

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line; path

50
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the kinetic energy of a rolling object is always … than that of a nonrotating object moving at the same speed

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greater

51
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stored energy –> … energy –> has the … to be converted into other forms of energy

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potential; potential

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interaction forces that can store useful energy (e.g. gravitational/ elastic potential energy) are called … forces. mechanical energy of a system is conserved when only … act

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conservative; conservative forces

53
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nonconservative force example:

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friction

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only … in potential energy are significant, when it comes to analyzing potential energy

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changes

55
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gravitational potential energy depends only on the … of an object and not on the … the object took to get to that position

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height; path

56
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spring force is not a … force, so … is used

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constant; average

57
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the sum of the kinetic and potential energies is called the … of the system

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mechanical energy

58
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the mechanical energy is conserved for an … system without …

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isolated; friction

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a collision in which mechanical energy is conserved is called a … collision. the collision must obey two conservation laws: conservation of … and conservation of …. Although the energy is transformed into potential energy during the collision, the mechanical energy before and after the collision is purely ….

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perfectly elastic; momentum; mechanical energy; kinetic energy

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