Forms of Energy

Ability to do work

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POTENTIAL ENERGY

Gravitational Potential Energy

Depends on height

Elastic Potential Energy

Associated with objects that can be stretched or compressed

CHEMICAL ENERGYenergy required to bond atoms together

NUCLEAR ENERGY released in

the form of light and

heat energy as

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> 50,000 DEGREES CELSIUS

Most concentrated form of energy

KINETIC ENERGY

MECHANICAL ENERGYenergy associated with motion

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Movement of turbines

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Internal motion of

atoms

Moving electric charges

Heat energy causes changes in the temperature and phase (solid, liquid, gas) of any form of matter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD_54Cq_UMMChanges in Energy

ENERGY TRANSFORMATIONS