What Is Energy? Test

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What is the difference between a 60 Watt light bulb and a 100 Watt light bulb?

A 60 watt light bulb transfers less energy per second than does a 100 watt light bulb

If a train and a car are traveling at the same speed, they have the same amount of kinetic energy.

False

What happens to potential energy as a squashed ball regains its shape?

Potential energy is converted to kinetic energy

A baseball flying through the air has kinetic energy because of its motion.

True

When work is done on an object, the object gains energy.

True

Which of the following has kinetic energy?

a rolling bowling ball

The ability to do work is called

energy.

The energy associated with motion is called

kinetic energy.

The rate at which energy is transferred is called

power.

Unlike kinetic energy, potential energy is

stored.


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