Instructional Video
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Science in Focus: Energy: Energy in Cycles

9th - 10th
Video workshop explores the everyday activities, such as walking, running, or playing a stringed instrument, that generate energy cycles, as well as the reasons energy cycles diminish and the ways to keep them sustained. [58:20]
Instructional Video
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Science in Focus: Energy: Force and Work

3rd - 8th
What is force and work? The lesson unit and sixty-minute video focus on answering questions about force, work, and power. [55:16]
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Energy Transfer in a Trebuchet

9th - 10th
On NOVA, a team of carpenters, timber framers, engineers, and historians recreate a medieval throwing machine called a trebuchet. This adapted video segment explores how understanding energy transfer informs their design. [4:17]
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OpenSciEd

Open Sci Ed: 8.3 Forces at a Distance: Teacher Playlist

8th
This teacher playlist demonstrates the Forces at a Distance unit investigations where the students investigate the cause of a speaker's vibration in addition to the effect.
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OpenSciEd

Open Sci Ed: 8.3 Forces at a Distance: Student Playlist

8th
This student playlist demonstrates the Forces at a Distance unit investigations where the students investigate the cause of a speaker's vibration in addition to the effect.
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PBS

Pbs Kids Clubhouse Adventures: Read Good Books!: Kids Build Balloon Rockets

Pre-K - 1st
KIDS Clubhouse Adventures kids read and discover more about energy. In this feature, kids make balloon rockets using fishing line, tape, straws and balloons, and learn about potential and kinetic energy.
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University of Nottingham

Sixty Symbols: Symbols of Physics and Astronomy: Energy

9th - 10th
University of Nottingham professors discuss energy, and show the conversion of potential energy to kinetic energy through a variety of simple demonstrations. [4:25]
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Gravitational Potential Energy Defined Mathematically

9th - 10th
This lesson gives a mathematical relationship for gravitational potential energy. [7:05]
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Bozeman Science

Bozeman Science: Total Energy

9th - 10th
In the following video Paul Andersen explains how the total energy of a system is the combination of kinetic, potential and internal energy of the objects. He then shows you how to calculate the kinetic energy, gravitational potential...
Instructional Video
Bozeman Science

Bozeman Science: Potential Energy

9th - 10th
In the following video Paul Andersen explains how conservative forces can be used to store potential energy in an object or a system. The work done is equal to the amount of potential energy in the object. The following conservative...
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Bozeman Science

Bozeman Science: Kinetic and Potential Energy

9th - 10th
In the following video Paul Andersen explains how the energy in a closed system can be converted from kinetic to potential to kinetic energy. Sample problems and a simulation is contained. [4:46]
Instructional Video
Bozeman Science

Bozeman Science: Bernoulli's Equation

9th - 10th
In the following video Paul Andersen explains how Bernoulli's Equation describes the conservation of energy in a fluid. The equation describes the pressure energy, potential energy, and kinetic energy of a fluid at a single point. A...
Instructional Video
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Gravitational Potential Energy

9th - 10th
This lesson introduces the concept of gravitational potential energy. [4:26]
Instructional Video
National Science Foundation

National Science Foundation: Green Revolution: Electric Vehicles

9th - 10th
Lisa Van Pay of the National Science Foundation visits the scientists and engineers working to make the electric car of the future a reality today. They explain their work on the biggest problem, which is storing enough potential energy...
Instructional Video
National Science Foundation

National Science Foundation: Science of Nhl Hockey: Work, Energy & Power

9th - 10th
In order to generate a 100 mile-per-hour (160 kph) slapper, NHL players depend on three important physics concepts: work, energy and power. [5:15]
Instructional Video
Crash Course

Crash Course Physics #16: Simple Harmonic Motion

9th - 10th
Bridges, bridges, bridges, bridges. We talk a lot about bridges in Physics. Why? Because there is A LOT of practical physics that can be learned from the planning and construction of them. In this video episode of Crash Course Physics,...
Instructional Video
Crash Course

Crash Course Physics #27: Voltage, Electric Charge, and Capacitors

9th - 10th
So, how do those defibrillators you see on TV actually work? Surprise! Physics can explain! Okay buckle up, everyone! In this video episode of Crash Course Physics, Shini has the task of breaking down Electrical Potential Energy,...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Springs and Hooke's Law: Potential Energy Stored in a Spring

9th - 10th
A video lecture showing how to reach the conclusion based on physics principals that work needed to compress a spring is the same thing as the potential energy stored in the compressed spring. [9:59]
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Yale University

Open Yale Courses: Physics 200: Work Energy Theorem and Conservation of Energy

9th - 10th
The lecture addresses kinetic and potential energy. The work-energy theorem is defined and the Law of Conservation of Energy is explained using several examples.
Instructional Video
Bozeman Science

Bozeman Science: Kinetic Energy

9th - 10th
In the following video Paul Andersen explains how the kinetic energy of an object if due to the motion of an object. Objects can have kinetic energy but they cannot have potential energy unless they are part of a system. [4:47]
Instructional Video
Bozeman Science

Bozeman Science: Internal Energy

9th - 10th
In the following video Paul Andersen explains how the internal energy of a system can change as the internal structure of the system changes. An object model will not be able to account for the restoring forces and so a system model must...
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Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology

Iris: Earthquake Wave Analogies: Like Ripples on Water

9th - 10th
In this animation, Dr. Geophysics compares seismic waves to ripples in water and helps explain how they are alike. He also guides you through the simple physics of potential energy and energy release. [1:47]
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Work and Energy: Work and Energy (Part 2)

9th - 10th
Continues the discussion of work, and introduces kinetic and potential energies. [9:52]
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Electricity and Magnetism: Electric Potential Energy

9th - 10th
Introduction to electric potential energy. [12:37]