Chapter 5

  1. What is energy?
    The capacity to cause change
  2. What is kinetic energy?
    • The energy of motion
    • chemical energy from food
  3. What is potential energy?
    • Energy that an object has because its location or structure
    • Think energy contained by water behind a dam or compressed spring
  4. What is the principle conservation of energy?
    It is not possible to destroy or create energy.  Like matter, energy can only be converted from one form to another.
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Chapter 5
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