Energy stores

• Thermal energy is associated with heat
• Elastic potential energy is associated with stretching or squashing an object
• Chemical energy is the energy store associated with food, fuel and batteries
• Kinetic energy is the energy of an object during motion
• Thermal

  Elastic Potential

  Chemical

  Kinetic

  Magnetic Potential

  Electrostatic Potential

  Nuclear Potential

  Gravitational potential
• Gravitational potential energy is associated with the height that an object is being placed at.
• Energy stores are the containers that energy is held on.
• When a ball is being dropped in air, its gravitational potential energy is decreasing. As a result of this, the speed that the object is falling at is increasing therefore kinetic energy is increasing