consider the following terms:

• Energy
• Chemical energy
• Electrical energy
• Conservative force
• Nonconservative force
• Gravitational potential energy
• Mechanical energy
• Potential energy
• Thermal energy
• Work

Choose at least 2 terms from the list and answer the following questions for each term:

• What familiarity and prior knowledge do you have about the term?
• What does the term mean in everyday language to everyday people? Use examples to help describe your thoughts. How do people use the word?
• What does the term mean in technical language to physicists?
• How is the term related to the course student learning outcome? Use work and energy to describe changes within a closed system.
• What are the similarities and differences between the everyday and technical meanings and uses of the term?
• What impact might the similarities and differences have on your learning of physics concepts in this course?