hey guys! this lovely week, we will be talking about energy!
not just any kind of energy though, were gonna talk about potential and kinetic energy!
You may think the only way to get energy is by drinking Pumkin Spice Latte's and Monster, but thats actually not the case! crazy right! there is energy is in everything! there is potential energy and kinetic energy.
POTENTIAL ENERGY-
Potential energy is energy based off an objects position or condition. for example, if there's a huge boulder on the edge of a giant cliff, it's potentail energy. it's about to fall off the cliff becasue that's the laws of gravity. but that's a different topic for a different week. Another example is, if you were Katniss Everdeen,(SPOILER ALERT) about to shoot at a bag of apples to explode things, and you had your arrow drawn back, the arrow has potential energy becasue it is about to be shot. 
KINETIC ENERGY-
Kinetic energy is an object in motion. for example, if you were on a rollercoaster, and you were going as fast as you could, that fast energy is Kinetic. Mass and speed come into play with Kinetic energy.
the more mass an object has, the more Kinetic energy it has. the faster you are going, more Kinetic energy in that object. Lets go back to the Katniss example- OK Katniss lets go of the arrow and it flies at the sack of apples. they topple onto the ground and the mines explode. When she let go of the arrow, that no longer is Potential, it was turned into KInetic energy. Now Kinetic energy can be transferred to one object to another. When the apples toppled to the ground adn hit the mines, they exploded. the explosion is now kinetic energy.
Now that you have a very good idea of what Kinetic Energy and Potential Energy are, lets put it into a real life situation.
ok there is a toy truck and a bouncy ball sitting on the edge of a counter. (both have potential energy) if you push them off the counter, it is transferred into Kinetic energy. But which one has more? The bouncy ball, or the toy truck? If you said the toy truck, your absoultly correct. The toy truck has more kinetic energy because it has a larger mass than the bouncy ball. And like i said earlier, the more mass, the more energy!!
(pretend its smaller)
bouncy ball
as you can see- the truck has more mass than the bouncy ball and it can move faster therefore it has more Kinetic energy and more Potential energy.
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hey nubs! I hope y'all enjoyed it!!!! I had fun creating it!!
fun fact about me- I LOVE the Hunger Games!!!
if you dont,
oh whale 
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here's meh links!
katniss picture
katniss gif
energy gif
lollercoaster
coke truck
rolling panda ball
omg. i just want to start this post off by saying how sorry I am. I haven't been on in 2 weeks! That is crazy. I really hope y'all will forgive me for that. we weren't assigned a topic for the last 2 weeks because its part of our state curriculum to talk about abnormal science. we talked about, Ghosts, Crop-circles( aliens), and telepathic animals.
Anyway... this week we're going to be talking about matter. but more specifically- the changing states of matter.
there are three different states of matter.
LIQUID
SOLID
GAS &
PLASMA
(we arent going to talk about plasma, I just wanted to list it. (plasma is lightning))
matter changes states with the temperature. If you add heat to ice, it melts. if you decrease the temperature to water, it freezes. every thing or all matter has its own unique melting and freezing point. even though the physical form has changed, the chemical makeup is still the same.
a good example for all of this is water. It's the most commonly used example for matter changing states.
Water can be found as:
ICE
STEAM &
H2O
There's this thing, it's called heat of fusion, and it's pretty cool. it's the amount of heat required to convert a unit mass of a solid at its melting point into a liquid without an increase in temperature. told you- awesome.
lets talk about when things change states.
Like I stated earlier, everything has it's own melting point and freezing point.
Ice's melting point is:0 degrees Celsius, or 32 degrees Fahrenheit.
Water's freezing point is also that^^ I know it sounds confusing, but that's just the way things are.
Now lets talk about some more terms!! (BTW I'm about 1/2 way done!)
there's Condensation, Sublimation, and Disposition.
Condensation- Condensation is basically a liquid (lets use water) that collects droplets on a cold surface when humid air is in contact with it. You can see an example of condensation on a glass of cold water on a hot day, or after it has rained and its very humid outside. as shown below, you could write stuff on the glass.
Sublimatation- a change directly from the solid to the gaseous state without becoming liquid. two words. Dry. Ice. Ice that skips the liquid state, and goes directly to the gaseous state.
Disposition- its the exact opposite of Sublimatation. it is a gas, turning directly into a solid.
so that summarizes the changing points of matter, or a teenage girl. Sometimes they're stable (solid) sometimes they're liquid (crying-duh) and sometimes they're a gas (pissed of and angry)
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hey guys. sorry again for not being on for like two weeks.
oh whale,
oh ya. here are the links to all my pictures..
srug guy
cute steam anamation
steaming chilly peppers
flashing solid
dr pepper drink
condensation picture
cool dry ice
cute melting ice cube
plasma wolf
^^^^^ I love One Direction!!
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