Energy and Transfer

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    • What is the main topic of the beginning of the book?
      Energy and Energy Transfer
    • What should you be able to understand by the end of the topic on energy?
      That energy can be held in different types of stores
    • What are the changes an object goes through that involve energy transfer?
      Changes in shape, chemical composition, position in a field, or temperature
    • What happens when an electric circuit is completed?
      Energy transfers take place
    • What is an example of a situation where an object transfers energy?
      When a battery powers a light bulb
    • What are the different types of energy stores?
      • Kinetic Energy Store
      • Electrostatic Energy Store
      • Magnetic Energy Store
      • Elastic Energy Store
      • Chemical Energy Store
      • Gravitational Potential Energy Store
      • Thermal Energy Store
    • What type of energy does anything that moves have?
      Kinetic energy
    • What do two electric charges that attract or repel each other have?
      Energy in their electrostatic energy stores
    • What do two magnets that attract or repel each other possess?
      Energy in their magnetic energy stores
    • What type of energy do stretched objects have?
      Elastic energy
    • What type of energy can be released by a chemical reaction?
      Chemical energy
    • What type of energy does anything in a gravitational field have?
      Gravitational potential energy
    • How does gravitational potential energy change with height?
      The higher it goes, the more gravitational potential energy it has
    • What does thermal energy depend on?
      The temperature of the object
    • What does a field represent in physics?
      A region in which a particular force can act on objects
    • What does it mean if something is in a gravitational field?

      It means gravity can act on it
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