All energy falls into two categories:
- Potential energy – energy at rest
- Potential energy is stored energy.
- Example: a roller coaster at the top of a steep slope.
- The higher the slope, the more potential energy is stored.
- Example: a roller coaster at the top of a steep slope.
- Potential energy is stored energy.
- Kinetic energy – energy in motion
- Kinetic energy is the motion of waves, atoms, matter, and objects.
- Example: the roller coaster moving downward.
- The faster the car moves, the more kinetic energy is produced.
- Example: the roller coaster moving downward.
- Kinetic energy is the motion of waves, atoms, matter, and objects.