Energy stores and systems: Energy: Physics: GCSE (9:1)

Cards (15)

  • System
    An object or group of objects
  • Kinetic
    The energy of a moving object
  • Chemical
    The energy stored in chemical bonds
  • Gravitational potential
    The energy stored in an object when it is raised against gravity
  • Elastic potential
    The energy stored when an object is stretched or compressed
  • Internal (thermal)

    The total kinetic and potential energy of the particles in an object
  • Magnetic
    The energy stored when repelling poles are pushed together or when attracting poles are pulled apart
  • Electrostatic
    The energy stored when repelling charges are pushed together or when attracting charges are pulled apart
  • Nuclear
    The energy stored in the nuclei of atoms
  • Mechanically
    When energy is transferred by a force moving an object through a distance
  • Electrically
    When energy is transferred by charges moving due to a potential difference
  • By heating
    When energy is transferred due to a temperature difference
  • By radiation
    When energy is transferred as a wave
  • Doing work
    The scientific way of saying that energy has been transferred
  • Energy
    The capacity to do work