Vocab
What is Potential energy?
It is the motion to stay in place
What is Newton's 3rd law of motion?
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
Kinetic energy of a ball at the bottom of a hill is at it's ________ (maximum or minimum).
What is maximum?
A stretched rubber band. Potential or Kinetic?
What is potential.
On a roller coaster, this is where I have the most Potential Energy.
What is at the very top.
What happens when there is no force pushing on the kinetic energy?
There will be no movement.
What does Newton's third law mean?
Answers will vary...
When you are pulling back an arrow then that is an action but when you let it go then it's a reaction.
Potential energy at the top of a roller coaster hill is at its _______ (maximum or minimum).
What is maximum?
A marble rolling across the table.
What is kinetic energy.
On a roller coaster, this is where I have the most kinetic energy.
What is the difference between potential energy and kinetic energy?
Kinetic energy is motion that is moving.
Potential energy is motion that is not moving.
A bus hits a bug and the bug splatters on the windshield, which force is greater?
They are the same.
You are floating in your space suit about 1,000 m from the moon's surface What type of energy do you have? (kinetic, potential, or both)
Both
Water at the top of a waterfall.
What is potential energy?
On a roller coaster, this is where I have the least kinetic energy.
What happens if you add unbalanced force to potential energy?
It starts to move.
You hit a wall with a stick. The equal but opposite reaction is ...
The wall pushes against the stick.
A rock at the edge of a cliff has ______ energy because of its position.
What is potential energy.
Sunlight heating the pavement for a snake.
What is kinetic energy?
Where on a roller coaster is the potential and kinetic energy the same?
What is halfway down the hill.
In order to give a ball more kinetic energy, you must do more ________?
What is Work (or force)?
Who came up with the 3rd Law of Motion?
Sir Isaac Newton
Suppose a juggler is juggling oranges, at an orange's highest point, what form of energy does it have ?
What is potential energy.
A car driving quickly down a freeway.
What is kinetic energy?
On a roller coaster, where is the kinetic energy turning into potential energy?
What is...as it goes back up the hill.