energy vocab Flashcards

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law of conservation of energy

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the total energy in a system is always constant and cannot be created or destroyed

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2
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potential energy

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energy that is stored

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3
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kinetic energy

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energy that is moving

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4
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work

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a measure of how much energy has been transferred into moving (or rearranging) an object

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