Friday, March 19, 2010

Kinetic vs Potential Energy

Today we reviewed yesterday's assignment from page 11-2 & 11-3.  Students had to identify the energy conversion that took place on different machines.  We discussed section 11-2 notes on potential and kinetic energy.  Following the discussion, students performed a quick mini-lab from page 11-12 that analyzed the difference in rebound of a tennis ball dropped from 50 & 100 cm.  We culminated the class by going outside on this beautiful day to do worksheet 11-7 which asks students to identify all the things that have kinetic energy in 2 minutes that they see outside.  We repeated that procedure with potential energy and then compared the two lists.
News article # 25 is due on Monday.

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