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Potential and Kinetic Energy
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Potential and Kinetic Energy
All energy can be in one of two states: potential energy or kinetic energy.
Energy can be transferred from potential to kinetic and between objects.
Potential energy is stored energy--energy ready to go.
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Potential and Kinetic Energy
All energy can be in one of two states: potential energy or kinetic energy.
Energy can be transferred from potential to kinetic and between objects.
Potential energy is stored energy--energy ready to go.
A lawn mower filled with gasoline, a
car on top of a hill, and students waiting to go home from school are all examples of potential
energy.
Gravitational potential energy is the energy possessed by a body because of its elevation
(height) relative to a lower elevation, that is, the energy that could be obtained by letting it fall
to a lower elevation.
For example, water at the top of a waterfall or stored behind a dam at a
hydroelectric plant has gravitational potential energy.
A roller coaster train going down hill represents merely a complex case as a body is
descending an inclined plane.
Newton s first two laws relate force and acceleration, which are
key concepts in roller coaster physics.
At amusement parks, Newton s laws can be applied to
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