Thrilling Experiments: Potential and Kinetic Energy

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Name Energy Law In the space below, draw and label a diagram to show the egg experiment as seen on the video. Be sure to include all labeled parts in your diagram. At the bottom of the page, write the conclusion that was drawn from completing this experiment. Conclusion 18 After Viewing Activity 1 Thrilling Experiments: Potential and Kinetic Energy © Sunburst Visual Media, a division of Global Video, LLC
Name Heads Up! Follow the steps to experiment with potential and kinetic energy. 1. Gather materials -A metal weight or rock with a mass of roughly 5 kilograms. (10 pounds), a soda bottle filled with water, a wooden plank about 2 meters long. (2” x 4” – or smaller), 2 tennis balls – one cut in half, wood screw and washer to fix half tennis ball onto plank at one end. 2. Rest the plank on the soda bottle. The water inside the bottle prevents it from collapsing. 3. Place the tennis ball on the half tennis ball at one end of the plank. 4. Drop the weight onto the other end of the plank to launch the tennis ball upwards. 5. Vary the distance between the fulcrum of the lever (the soda bottle) and one end of the plank to increase or decrease the amount of leverage applied to the tennis ball when launched. 6. Vary the height from which the weight is dropped onto the other end of the plank. 7. Determine the best position for the fulcrum to provide maximum altitude for the tennis ball. 8. Describe how the gravitational potential energy of the weight is converted to kinetic energy as it falls and how the kinetic energy of the tennis ball is converted to gravitational potential energy as it travels upwards – and back to kinetic energy as it falls. 9. Theoretically, the tennis ball should gain the most kinetic energy when it is launched as far as possible from the fulcrum when the weight is dropped onto the other end of the plank. How does the mass of the plank affect the best position for the fulcrum? © Sunburst Visual Media, a division of Global Video, LLC Thrilling Experiments: Potential and Kinetic Energy After Viewing Activity 2 19
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