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Ability to do work.:
energy
Energy cannot be created or destroyed and can only change forms.:
Law of Conservation of Energy
Energy of things in motion.:
kinetic energy
First scientist to use the term kinetic energy in 1849.:
Lord Kelvin
Unit used to measure energy.:
joules
How fast an object is moving.:
speed
How much an object weighs.:
mass
Movement through space from one point to another.:
translational kinetic energy
Spinning movement around an axis.:
rotational kinetic energy
Imaginary line that goes through the center of the Earth from top to bottom.:
axis
Stored energy.:
potential energy
First scientist to use the term potential energy in the 1800s.:
William Rankine
Stored energy from the pull of Earth’s gravity
higher objects have more energy.: gravitational potential energy
