Potential energy is energy that is stored and waiting to be used, and it comes in three main forms: gravitational potential energy due to an object's position, elastic potential energy from compression/expansion, and chemical potential energy stored in chemical bonds. Kinetic energy is the energy an object has due to its motion and is calculated as one-half the mass times the velocity squared. The document divides all energy into either potential energy or kinetic energy.

1. Potential
and Kinetic
Energy

2. How is all energy divided?
All Energy
Potential Kinetic
Energy Energy
Gravitation Elastic Chemical
Potential Potential Potential
Energy Energy Energy

3. What is Potential Energy?
o Energy that is stored
and waiting to be
used later

4. What is Gravitational Potential
Energy?
o Potential energy
due to an object’s
position
Don’t look down, o P.E. = mass x
Rover! height x gravity
Good boy!

5. What is Elastic Potential Energy?
o Potential energy due compression or
expansion of an elastic object.
Notice the ball compressing
and expanding

6. What is Chemical Potential Energy?
o Potential energy
stored within the
chemical bonds of
an object

7. What is Kinetic Energy?
o Energy an object has due
to its motion
o K.E. = .5(mass x speed2)