Energy Basics Jeopardy!
Kinetic or
Potential
Forms and
Transformations
Simple
Machines
Energy
Calculations
The Wonders of
Graphing
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Kinetic or Potential -1
• ANSWER: The name given to the energy
of motion.
• QUESTION: What is kinetic energy ?
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Kinetic or Potential -2
• ANSWER: Then name used to describe
stored energy.
• QUESTION: What is potential energy ?
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Kinetic or Potential -3
• ANSWER: The formula for potential
energy.
• QUESTION: What is PE = wh, or PE =
mgh ?
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Kinetic or Potential -4
• ANSWER: The formula for kinetic
energy.
• QUESTION: What is KE = ½ mv2 ?
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Kinetic or Potential -5
• ANSWER: The point in an object’s
descent at which its potential energy is
greatest.
• QUESTION: What is right as it begins to
fall?
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Forms and Transformations -1
• ANSWER: A fireplace could exhibit
these forms of energy.
• QUESTION: What are heat, light,
chemical?
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Forms and Transformations -2
• ANSWER: These two forms of energy
are often associated with friction.
• QUESTION: What is heat and sound ?
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Forms and Transformations -3
• ANSWER: Flipping on a light switch
exhibits these energy transformations.
• QUESTION: What is mechanical to
electrical to light ?
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Forms and Transformations -4
• ANSWER: A dog running would exhibit
these forms of energy.
• QUESTION: What is chemical,
mechanical, heat?
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Forms and Transformations-5
• ANSWER: Using a blow dryer would
show these energy transformations.
• QUESTION: What is mechanical to
electrical to heat/sound?
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Simple Machines -1
• ANSWER: The simple machine
exhibited best by a steering wheel.
• QUESTION: What is a wheel and axle?
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Simple Machines -2
• ANSWER: The simple machine
exhibited best by a see-saw.
• QUESTION: What is a lever?
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Simple Machines -3
• ANSWER: A screw can be a
combination of these two simple
machines (depending on the screw).
• QUESTION: What is a wedge and an
inclined plane?
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Simple Machines -4
• ANSWER: A bicycle is a complex or
compound machine made up of these
simple ones.
• QUESTION: What are screws, pulleys,
wheels and axles, levers.
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Simple Machines -5
• ANSWER: The ways in which simple
machines impact effort.
• QUESTION: What is they change the
amount of effort, change the direction of
the effort, or transfer the effort from one
place to another.
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Energy Calculations -1
• ANSWER: The mass of an object if the
force taken to move it is 15.00 N and its
acceleration is 3.00 m/s2
• QUESTION: What is 5.00 kg?
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Energy Calculations -2
• ANSWER: The distance an object
traveled if a force of 35.50 N was applied,
and the work done was 225.75 J.
• QUESTION: What is 6.36 m?
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Energy Calculations -3
• ANSWER: The potential energy of an
object with a mass of 12.25 kg that is 54
meters above the surface of the Earth.
• QUESTION: What is 6489.32 J ?
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Energy Calculations -4
• ANSWER: The velocity of an object with
a kinetic energy of 185,000,000.00 J and a
mass of 12,000,000.00 kg.
• QUESTION: What is 5.55 m/s?
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Energy Calculations -5
• ANSWER: The mass of an object that
has 555.00 J of work done on it, is
accelerating at a rate of 2.45 m/s2 and
travels a distance of 12.50 meters.
• QUESTION: What is 18.12 kg?
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Wonders of Graphing-1
• ANSWER: This formula can be used to
determine rate of change.
• QUESTION: What is ΔY divided by ΔX
or Y2 – Y1 / X2 – X1
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Wonders of Graphing-2
• ANSWER: The rate of change when X1
= 2, X2 = 5, Y2 = 20, and Y1 = 17
• QUESTION: What is 1 unit/unit?
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Wonders of Graphing-3
• ANSWER: The type of relationship shown by
this graph.
People (numbers)
People at a high school play
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Time (minutes)
• QUESTION: What is a direct relationship?
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Wonders of Graphing-4
• ANSWER: The rate shown for this graph.
People (numbers)
People at a high school play
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40
30
20
10
0
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3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
Time (minutes)
• QUESTION: What is an a decreasing rate?
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Wonders of Graphing-5
• ANSWER: This graph would depict a
cyclic variation.
• QUESTION: What is
25
20
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