Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. The words power and energy can be interchanged where measurement is concerned.
2. The lifting of a weight illustrates the meaning of a unit of measurement of energy.
3. When a 20-pound weight is lifted 5 feet, it has 100 foot-pounds of potential energy that it did not have when it was on the ground.
4. The energy of the motion of a ball is called kinetic energy.
5. The foot-pound is the energy unit commonly used in the American system of measurements.


1. True
2. True
3. True
4. True
5. False

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