Physics 3rd 6 Weeks Vocabulary
Across
- 5. Mechanical energy is not conserved in the presence of _______.
- 9. Work has a unit of newtons times meters or _________.
- 12. Gravitational potential energy depends on height from a ________ level.
- 14. The sum of kinetic energy and all forms of potential energy
- 16. Potential energy is ___________ energy.
- 17. The energy of an object that is associated with the object's motion
- 18. The energy stored in any deformed plastic object
- 19. The work done on an object by a ________ force equals the object's mass times its acceleration times its displacement
- 20. Kinetic energy is a ____________ quantity.
- 21. the energy associated with an object because of its interaction with the environment
Down
- 1. the potential energy associated with an object's position relative to a gravitational source
- 2. the net work done by all the forces acting on an object is equal to the change in the object's kinetic energy
- 3. work is done only when components of a force are ______________ to a displacement
- 4. The SI unit for power.
- 6. Work is _______ when the force is in the direction opposite the displacement.
- 7. the product of the component of a force along the direction of displacement and the magnitude of the displacement
- 8. a parameter that is a measure of a spring's resistance to being compressed or stretched
- 10. a quantity that measures the rate at which work is done or the rate of energy transfer by any method
- 11. Energy conservation occurs even when __________ varies.
- 13. The length of a spring when no external forces are acting on it is called the ___________.
- 15. Mechanical energy is often ____________.