Transferring energy
I can identify when stores of energy change, and describe causes of energy transfer between stores.
Transferring energy
I can identify when stores of energy change, and describe causes of energy transfer between stores.
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- Energy cannot be created or destroyed.
- Energy can be transferred by forces that change the properties of an object (or system).
Keywords
Store of energy - A store of energy describes the reason that something has energy.
Surroundings - An object’s surroundings include everything that is around it.
Energy transfer - There is an energy transfer when the amount of energy in some stores goes down and in other stores it goes up.
Common misconception
Energy can be used up.
Describe mechanisms that transfer energy from an object to other objects or systems as the energy it has decreases - or vice versa.
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Starter quiz
6 Questions
increases the object's gravitational store of energy.
increases the object's kinetic store of energy.
increases the object's thermal store of energy.
increases the object's elastic store of energy.
decreases the car's chemical store of energy.
increases the car's kinetic store of energy.
decreases the car's gravitational store of energy.
increases the surrounding's thermal store of energy.
Exit quiz
6 Questions
friction and drag forces act (in the opposite direction).
the surroundings are at a lower temperature.
a gravitational force acts downwards (in the opposite direction).
a chemical reaction causes an electric current to flow.