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“Energy." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Web. 22 Mar. 2011. . "Forms of Energy." Railroad Commission - Energy Education Programs - Energy Curriculum. Web. 23 Mar. 2011. . In the context of physical sciences, several forms of energy have been defined. These include:

• [|Chemical energy] • [|Electrical energy] • [|Radiant energy], the energy of [|electromagnetic radiation] • [|Nuclear energy] || • [|Magnetic energy] • [|Elastic energy] • [|Sound energy] • [|Mechanical energy] • [|Luminous energy] ||
 * • [|Thermal energy], thermal energy in transit is called [|heat]

 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Energy is the ability to do work or cause change. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Kinetic energy is the energy of motion, also increases when velocity increases. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Potential energy is energy stored and held in readiness. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Elastic Potential energy is potential energy associated with objects that can stretch or compress. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Gravitational Potential energy is potential energy that depends on height. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Thermal energy is the total energy of the particles in an object. When the thermal energy of an object increases, the object becomes warmer. Also known as heat energy; the energy of moving or vibrating molecules. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Mechanical energy is the energy associated with the motion or position of an object. Mechanical energy can be kinetic or potential energy. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Chemical energy is energy stored in chemical compounds. It is potential energy stored in chemical bonds that hold chemical compounds together. The most common examples of chemical energy are fuels such as gasoline, coal, and natural gas. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Electromagnetic energy, such as light, travels in waves that have some electrical and magnetic properties. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Electrical energy is moving electrical charges that produce electricity. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Nuclear energy is potential energy stored in the nucleus of an atom. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Radiant energy is the form of energy related to the movement of light, electromagnetic waves, or particles. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">When you transfer energy into an object, it may change shape or position. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Energy Conversion is a changing of one form of energy to another, usually more useful form.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Here are some objects that we may use for our contraption:

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.5in;">• circuits to power motors <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.5in;">• wheels or gears we could roll <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.5in;">• fan <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.5in;">• lights with different wavelengths <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.5in;">• ramps and other platforms <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.5in;">• drumsticks (I do not know how we will use them, but it may work, I have a lot of them, and it will definitely be awesome!!!!) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.5in;">• magnets and metal pieces <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.5in;">• rubber bands and duct tape <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.5in;">• iPod and speakers to produce music <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.5in;">• dominoes <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.5in;">• water and a tub <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.5in;">• pulleys, switches and levers <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.5in;">• stamps or stickers <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.5in;">• slingshot <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.5in;">• spinny contraption (already designed) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.5in;">• sailboat <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.5in;">• tubes/tracks

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Examples of Energy in our Contraption: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Thermal: Lights, circuits, matches, and fire <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Chemical: Batteries, baking soda and vinegar, and food <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Electromagnetic: lights, sound, magnets <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Electrical: Batteries, wires, light, iPod and speakers <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Acoustic: iPod, speakers, drumsticks, and hitting thing (percussion) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; line-height: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Mechanical: wheels, gears, rubber bands, marbles, switch, dominoes, etc.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Flashlight Explanation <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">A flashlight is a simple yet complex contraption to build. It takes several parts and energies converting and working together to power it. First, you must use mechanical energy to press the button into the ON position. Mechanical energy is he energy associated with the motion or position of an object. Mechanical energy can be kinetic or potential energy. This then makes two strips contact each other and start the flow of electricity. Electrical energy is moving electrical charges that produce electricity. The batteries are connected so that the electrical current flows from the negative to the positive side. A cycle is created when the chemical energy of the positive side of the battery is connected to the lamp. Chemical energy is energy stored in chemical compounds. It is potential energy stored in chemical bonds that hold chemical compounds together. The most common examples of chemical energy are fuels such as gasoline, coal, and natural gas. A light filament is activated by electricity and powers the light, which is electromagnetic energy. Electromagnetic energy, such as light, travels in waves that have some electrical and magnetic properties. The light is also producing thermal energy, which is the total energy of the particles in an object. When the thermal energy of an object increases, the object becomes warmer. Also known as heat energy; the energy of moving or vibrating molecules. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Energy Track Experiment <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">I learned multiple things from the energy track experiment. When the ball is at the top, it has GPE and when it goes down it converts to kinetic energy. Since energy cannot be created or destroyed, in theory the transferring should go on forever. But, air particles that the ball runs into slow it down and friction makes thermal energy, which steals some of the energy. Also, acoustic energy from the sound of the ball rolling on the track takes some energy away as well. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; margin-bottom: 0in;">Our contraption contained more than the seven energies required and had several steps more than seven. Also, we would like to explain that our contraption was working perfectly before somebody messed it up during our lunch period. This made the magnetic part of the contraption not work. I hope you will take this into account while you are looking at our project. We understand if you take off points because of this, but we would like to have as fair of a chance in making it to the museum as everyone. Thank you!

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; margin-bottom: 0in;">Our Project Explanation: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%; margin-bottom: 0in;">To start, we have a toy train draw bridge. The bridge is pulled up slightly to have a ramp form. On the top of this ramp, you push down a toy train that at the end of the track falls off the edge (the track is elevated in air over a wooden platform containing a light switch connected to a battery and lights) where it then falls on to the light switch causing many things to happen. First, chemical energy in the batteries turns into electrical energy, which is then passed through the light switch to the light bulbs, where the light bulbs then turn on giving off electromagnetic energy and thermal energy. But the train doesn’t stop there. After hitting the light switch, the train continues on forward, where it hits over dominos, cleverly placed on the end of the platform. These dominos continue for a short time, curve to the left, and then hit a magnet. This magnet is placed on top of a two face down dominos that are stacked on top of one another, where it the magnet then slides across theses two dominos, only to get close enough to get pulled by the magnetic waves of another magnet. Once these two magnets meet, then crash into each other, where they then hit over more dominos that fall down and curve to the left, fall up a ramp, and hit another toy train that is set up. This toy train is set up on top of another ramp, so that way when the dominos fall up the ramp and they hit the train, its just barely hard enough to knock the train out of its parked position and down the ramp. Once the train is down the ramp it runs over a hinge that is taped to the ground. On this hinge is a stick taped to the top edge of the hinge, so that way the stick can move up and down. On top of this stick is a sticker, and if a kid puts his/her hand down under the hinge with the stick, that child gets the sticker as a reward. Not only is this contraption fun to watch, but, you get a sweet sticker as a reward, and who doesn’t love stickers?