Open Curriculum
Open Curriculum: Simplifying the Energy Zoo
Physics students find out how to effectively define and clarify kinetic and potential energy.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Swinging Pendulum
This activity demonstrates how potential energy (PE) can be converted to kinetic energy (KE) and back again. Given a pendulum height, students calculate and predict how fast the pendulum will swing by understanding conservation of energy...
Other
Puhinui School: The Atoms Family: The Mummy's Tomb: Raceways
Help the Mummy build a rollercoaster to entertain the Atoms Family monsters by investigating the concepts of kinetic and potential energy.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Billy on Hill (Level 2)
Students must predict the distance traveled by a person on a sled. The person will start with potential energy due to gravity and then lose some energy on a hill. They will then lose the remaining energy on a level surface. You have to...
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Pendulum Motion
This tutorial investigates pendulum motion and how a variety of quantities change over the course of time. Such quantities will include forces, position, velocity and energy - both kinetic and potential energy. Take the interactive...
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium Where Does the Energy of a Spark Come From?
Activity 2 of the module investigates Where does the energy used to charge the Van de Graaff generator go? The activity investigates how objects can interact without touching, as well as what happens to potential energy when objects...
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: How Can a Small Spark Start a Huge Explosion?
Students explore connections between electric forces and molecules using simulations, and explain energy transfers using conservation of energy. This concept will be explored in the following activities. Activity 1 What makes materials...
Museum of Science
Museum of Science and Industry: Online Science: Activities: Make a Comeback Can
Step-by-step instructions, with photos, of how to make a metal can come back when it is sent rolling away. The can uses both kinetic and potential energy to roll away and back.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Billy on Hill (Level 1)
Students must predict the distance traveled by a person on a sled. The person will start with potential energy due to gravity and it will turn into KE without loss. They will then lose their energy on a level surface at the bottom of a...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Engineering in Sports
Imagining themselves arriving at the Olympic gold medal soccer game in Beijing, students begin to think about how engineering is involved in sports. After a discussion of kinetic and potential energy, an associated hands-on activity...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Maximum Mentos Fountain
Students play the role of engineers as they test, design and build Mentos fountains - a dramatic example of how potential energy can be converted to kinetic energy. They are challenged to work together as a class to optimize the design...
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium Where Does the Energy of a Spark Come From?
Activity 3 investigates Why is lightning so much bigger that a spark from the Van de Graff generator? In Activity 3 of this module, students investigate factors that affect the amount of potential energy that is stored.
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Where Does the Energy of a Spark Come From?
Activity 4 of this module investigates Why do I get shocked if I am too close to the Van de Graaff generator? This activity explores what happens to the potential energy of a system when objects are allowed to move freely (not held in...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physics Simulation: Power and Efficiency Simulation
Explore kinetic and potential energy by towing objects up a frictionless slope.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Jumping Joe
Students must predict the distance traveled by a person on a BMX bike. The person will start with potential energy due to gravity and then convert it into KE. They will then hit a ramp and become a projectile. You have to predict how far...
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Nonbonding
Bring two molecules together and observe potential energy changes.
Read Works
Read Works: Energy Screams
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about potential and kinetic energy on a roller coaster.. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Georgia State University
Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Conservation of Energy
This site is from the Physics Department at Georgia State University. The conservation of energy as a fundamental conservation law is presented and compared to other conservation laws (momentum and angular momentum). Links to further...
Georgia State University
Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Energy of Falling Object
This site is from the Physics Department at Georgia State University. The reliance upon the law of conservation of energy as an approach to problem-solving is presented and encouraged. It is modeled through a problem involving a...
Museum of Science
Museum of Science and Industry: Online Science: Activities: Make an Egg Bungee
Step-by-step instructions, with photos, of how to prepare an egg for a 'bungee jump' using a plastic bag and elastics, and a yard stick to measure the distance it falls each time it is dropped. The activity investigates the Law of...
Curated OER
Georgia State University: Electric Potential Energy
This site from Georgia State University defines electric potential energy and relates it to the concept of electric potential. Discusses the idea of a reference point or a qero potential location.
Curated OER
Georgia State University: Electric Potential Energy
This site from Georgia State University defines electric potential energy and relates it to the concept of electric potential. Discusses the idea of a reference point or a qero potential location.
Curated OER
Georgia State University: Gravitational Potential Energy
This site from Georgia State University Physics Department defines and explains the concept of gravitational potential energy. Uses many equations and graphics to illustrate the idea. Provides an online computational practice set with...
Curated OER
Georgia State University: Gravitational Potential Energy
This site from Georgia State University Physics Department defines and explains the concept of gravitational potential energy. Uses many equations and graphics to illustrate the idea. Provides an online computational practice set with...
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