Using computer simulation, students will explore the concept of conservation of energy at a skate park. After the completion of that exercise, students will move to a worksheet about the concepts with a roller coaster. Site includes...

From the Glenn Research Center at NASA, read about the law of conservation of energy. Included are formulas and many links to key terms.

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...

Site presents a straightforward presentation of Rutherford's work concerning the Law of Energy Conservation. Provides an adequate summary of early science on the nucleus, and includes much needed illustrations.

Explains what mechanical energy is and provides 22 examples of it.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students investigate how all types of energy, including work, relate to each other and are conserved in a closed system.

This resource examines how to determine the maximum speed of an oscillating system. It discusses how the concept of law of energy can be applied in solving these types of problems.

In the following interactive students will define conservative force, potential energy, and mechanical energy. They will explain the potential energy of a spring in terms of its compression when Hooke's Law applies. Students will also...

This site is a discussion and animation about whether the total mechanical energy of a cart rolling down an incline is conserved, which can be determined if there are any external forces acting upon it.

By the end of this section, you will be able to define the first law of thermodynamics; describe how conservation of energy relates to the first law of thermodynamics; identify instances of the first law of thermodynamics working in...

This activity covers concepts of energy and energy transfer utilizing energy transfer in musical instruments as an example. More specifically, the activity explains the two different ways in which energy can be transferred between a...

Students learn about the conservation of energy, aspects that affect energy in a system such as pressure and temperature, and to gain a better understanding of concepts such as entropy.

This physics tutorial aims to model and predict not the motion of just one object, but rather what happens when two or more objects collide. The concept of momentum will be the main focus of this module.

The Law of Conservation of Mechanical Energy is explained here.