Visual Learning Systems
Understanding Potential Energy
In this video, the concept of potential energy is explained in a simple and engaging manner. The video also introduces the concept of gravitational potential energy. This video is part of the 12-part series, Forms of Energy.
Science Buddies
Build a Marble Roller Coaster
How much energy does a roller coaster need to go through a loop without getting stuck? Build your own marble roller coaster in this project and find out!
Professor Dave Explains
Internal Energy
We know about kinetic energy and potential energy, which can interchange when an object moves through a gravitational field, so let's add to that list the internal energy of the object. This gives us a new and comprehensive way to...
Professor Dave Explains
Kinetic Energy and Potential Energy
You can put energy into an object. Wanna know how? No, you don't need a Harry Potter wand. Just lift it up above your head! By doing so, you bestow the object with more potential energy. Learn more about the energy of motion and the...
Mazz Media
Kinetic Energy
In this video students will learn that kinetic energy is the energy of motion and that the ability of a moving object to do work is the kinetic energy of the object. Viewers will come to understand that any moving object has the ability...
Visual Learning Systems
Heat and Energy: Energy and Motion
Upon viewing the Heat and Energy video series, students will be able to do the following: State the difference between kinetic and potential energy. Name and describe six different forms of energy: thermal, chemical, mechanical,...
Science Buddies
Build a Paper Roller Coaster
Have you ever ridden a roller coaster? Have you ever wanted to design your own? There are plenty of expensive toys and even video games that will let you build your own coasters—but in this project you'll make one out of paper and tape,...
Science Buddies
Build a Paper Airplane Launcher
Here's a challenge: Try throwing a paper airplane by moving just your wrist (don't move your elbow or shoulder). It's hard, isn't it? How could you get a paper airplane to fly far if you can use only a short distance to launch it? Try...
Visual Learning Systems
Exploring Energy: Investigating Kinetic Energy
Upon viewing the Exploring Energy video series, students will be able to do the following: Define energy as the ability to do work. Cite everyday examples of how energy is used to do work. Understand that kinetic energy is sometimes...
Visual Learning Systems
Exploring Energy: Exploring Potential Energy
Upon viewing the Exploring Energy video series, students will be able to do the following: Define energy as the ability to do work. Cite everyday examples of how energy is used to do work. Understand that kinetic energy is sometimes...
Visual Learning Systems
Energy Quiz
This video is a quiz over the topics covered in the Energy series. In this series, we explore the various forms of energy, including mechanical, nuclear, heat, chemical, and electromagnetic energy. We delve into the concepts of kinetic...
Science Buddies
Build A Wall Marble Run
In this activity, you will use recyclable materials to make your own wall marble run. A marble run is a fun toy and a great way to learn about physics concepts like kinetic and potential energy. Do you think your marble will make it to...
Flipping Physics
Energy Systems Clarified
A demonstration of a block-spring system on an incline is used to show the relationships between work and energy, and how they depended on what is defined as the system. Want Lecture Notes? http://www.flippingphysics.com/energy...​ This...
Professor Dave Explains
Conservation of Energy: Free Fall, Springs, and Pendulums
The energy of a closed system is always conserved. This is an important law of physics! But energy does change forms. What are all the forms and how do they interchange? You gotta watch this clip to find out, buddy!
Wonderscape
Science Kids: All About Energy
This video is a lesson on energy and its different forms. It explains what energy is, the law of conservation of energy, and the two main types of energy: potential energy and kinetic energy. The video also discusses different examples...
Visual Learning Systems
Introduction to Energy
This video introduces the Energy series. This series of videos describes the five main forms of energy and how to differentiate between them. Students will learn about potential and kinetic energy. Everyday examples illustrate how we...
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High speed Orange water-filled balloon bursts in man's hands against black
High speed Orange water-filled balloon bursts in man's hands against black
Getty Images
High speed Pink water-filled balloon bursts
High speed Pink water-filled balloon bursts
Getty Images
High speed Orange water-filled balloon bursts in man's hands against black
High speed Orange water-filled balloon bursts in man's hands against black
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High speed Yellow water-filled balloon bursts against black
High speed Yellow water-filled balloon bursts against black
Bozeman Science
PS3A - Definitions of Energy
Energy has many forms ... but very few sources! How do we present this to young scientists? Explore the Definitions of Energy, PS3A, in a video about the Next Generation Science Standards. The narrator keeps it simple by relating...
National Science Foundation
Science of the Winter Olympic Games: Physics of Slope-Style Skiing
Many mechanical phenomena are explained by a physics professor using Nick Goepper, a Winter Olympics 2014 slope-style skier, as the model. Beginning with kinetic and potential energy, the professor goes on to explain angular momentum and...
Scholastic
Study Jams! Energy & Matter
After Sam knocks a glass off the lunchroom table, he uses it as a springboard for explaining kinetic and potential energy. He mentions that sound is a type of kinetic energy and introduces the different forms of energy: thermal,...
Curated OER
Baby Energy
Baby energy is not what it sounds like, it's better. Using a baby playing at the park as his model, this young man describes, provides solid examples, and works through a series of equations that show energy. Potential and kinetic...