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Mo8-L1a: What are Potential and Kinetic Energy?

Key Concept What are Mechanical and Thermal
Mo8-L1b Energy
What are Potential and Kinetic Energy?
KEY CONCEPTS:
How do potential energy and kinetic energy differ?
1. How are mechanical energy and thermal energy
similar?.
2. What two forms of energy are carried by waves?

Vocabulary A-Z

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Mechanical Energy
sum of the potential energy and the kinetic energy in
a system.

Thermal Energy
the sum of the kinetic energy and the potential
energy of the particles that make up an object.

SUMMARY
What are Potential and Kinetic Energy?

Objects can have potential energy (stored
energy) and kinetic energy (energy due to
movement). Wave
a disturbance that transfers energy from one place to
another without transferring matter

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