Given diagrams, illustrations or relevant data, students will identify examples of kinetic and potential energy and their transformations.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this online tutorial, students are invited to investigate examples of potential energy and their transformations.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Definition of potential energy, gravitational potential energy, elastic potential energy and other forms of potential energy.

This introduction to potential energy contains illustrated examples, example problems, and interactive exercises for application of learning.

Explore the change in potential energy when molecules are separated from each other or broken apart.

Compare potential energy of oppositely or similarly charged particles.

Review the equations and skills related to gravitational potential energy at large distances, including how to apply conservations laws to objects in orbit.

This site explains and gives examples of elastic potential energy and how to calculate it.

Practice calculating the elastic potential energy stored in a spring.

Practice calculating the gravitational potential energy for a system of two masses.

Predict changes in gravitational potential energy and angular momentum for a system of two masses.

The activity investigates conservation of energy. Some topics explored are friction, kinetic energy, conservation of energy, and potential energy. The resource consists of video clips, lecture notes, practice problems, and exam...

This site explains what gravitational potential energy means and how to calculate it.

Explore the conversion of electric potential energy to thermal energy.

Compare the potential energy of particles with varying amounts of charge.

Kids learn about potential energy in the science of physics. The energy of position and state can be calculated using mass, gravity, and height. The standard unit is the joule. How it is different from kinetic energy.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Drag the red point up and down to explore the interaction between potential energy and kinetic energy in a barbell.

In Lesson 3, as part of the Research and Revise step, students investigate potential energy held within springs (elastic potential energy). Class begins with a video of either spring shoes or bungee jumping. Students then move on into...

This activity utilizes hands on learning with the conservation of energy with the inclusion of elastic potential energy. Students use pogo sticks to experience the elastic potential energy and its conversion to gravitational potential...

An activity where students demonstrate elastic potential energy and gravitational potential energy by looking at the travel height of a ping pong when dropped vs a ping pong dropped with a "dropper popper".

Online activity walks learner through exploration of kinetic and potential energy using animations. Through graphs, a quantitative connection is made between the movement and the energy involved. This information is then related to the...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Observe what happens in the change in the type of energy during a reaction in this simulation. After the activity, answer a self-correcting challenge question.

This lesson explains how gravitational potential energy and work are related.

This lesson introduces the concept of potential energy.