Science Assessment ~ Topics ~ Energy: Forms, Transformation, Transfer, and Conservation ~ NGSS Link PS3.A-H.4

These relationships are better understood at the microscopic scale, at which all of the different manifestations of energy can be modeled as a combination of energy associated with the motion of particles and energy associated with the configuration (relative position of the particles). In some cases the relative position energy can be thought of as stored in fields (which mediate interactions between particles). This last concept includes radiation, a phenomenon in which energy stored in fields moves across space.

Items associated with this NGSS statement in this project (ASPECt) and key idea (The amount of elastic potential ene…)
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RG167002	Stretching a rubber band increases the amount of elastic potential energy because the distance between the molecules that make up the rubber band increases, and intermolecular forces act to restore the molecules to the unstretched distance.
RG197001	The stronger the intermolecular forces, the greater the amount of elastic potential energy there is for a given length stretched.