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/Forms2.html

POTENTIAL
ENERGY

Gravitational
Potential Energy
Depend
s on
height

Elastic Potential
Energy

Associated
with
objects that
can be
stretched
or
compresse

CHEMICAL ENERGY
energy required to bond
atoms together

NUCLEAR
ENERGY

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released
in the
form of
light and
heat
energy
as the
nucleus

Most concentrated form of

energy

> 50,000 DEGREES CELSIUS

KINETIC ENERGY

MECHANICAL ENERGY
energy associated with
motion

Movement of turbines
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Moving electric
charges

Internal
motion of
atoms

Heat energy causes

changes in the
temperature and phase
(solid, liquid, gas) of any
form of matter

ENERGY
TRANSFORMATIONS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD_54Cq_UMM
Changes in Energy

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