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Energy: The ability to bring about changes or to do work.

Potential Energy: Energy an object possesses by virtue of its position. For example, lifting a mass mby h meters increases its potential energy by mgh, where g is the acceleration due to gravity.

Energy Audit: An inventory and description of all the features and products in a home or building that effect the use of energy.

Electron Energy: the energy of an electron accelerated from its rest energy by a voltage U is given by eU. For example, electrons impinging on the specimen in an electron microscope operated at 100 kV have t . . . View Full Definition

Translational Energy: The energy created by the approach and the armswing toward the focal point.

Energy Efficient Mortgage (EEM): A home mortgage in which the qualifying debt-to-income and housing expense-to-income ratios have been increased by 2% because the home meets or exceeds model standards for energy efficiency.

Energy Improvement Mortgage (EIM): A loan secured by real property that is made to an owner for the specific purpose of making energy efficient improvements to a home or building.

Internal Energy: Internal energy (U) is defined so that changes in internal energy (deltau) are equal to the heat absorbed or released by a process running at constant volume. While changes in internal energ . . . View Full Definition

Kinetic Energy: The energy an object possesses by virtue of its motion. An object of mass m moving at velocity v has a kinetic energy of ½mv2.

Nuclear Binding Energy: Energy needed to break an atomic nucleus into separate protons and neutrons.