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What are the nine types of energy, give 5 examples
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1. Electrical - current
2. Light - sun, bulbs 3. Sound - loudspeakers, anything noisy 4. Kinetic - anything moving 5. Nuclear - nuclear reactions |
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What are the nine types of energy, give further 4 examples
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6. Thermal - heat
7. Gravitational potential - anything that could fall 8. Elastic potential - springs, elastic, rubber bands 9. Chemical - foods, fuels, batteries |
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What is stored energy, and give three examples?
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Energy that is not doing anything, it's waiting to happen and be turned into other forms.
e.g. GPE, Elastic potential, chemical POTENTIAL AND CHEMICAL |
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What are the two types of energy conservation?
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USING FEWER RESOURCES and
THE PRINCIPLE OF THE CONSERVATION OF ENERGY |
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What is the PRINCIPLE OF THE CONSERVATION OF ENERGY?
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Energy can never be created or destroyed. It's only ever transferred from one form to another
e.g. solar panels = light to heat falling objects = GPE to kinetic |
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When is energy useful?
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When it can be transferred from one form to another
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What happens when energy is transferred?
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No energy is created or destroyed. All energy that goes in must come out. Some will be non-useful types
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