Potential Energy
A Unit of force. In this case, used as a measure of "weight" to calculate the potential energy of an object.
What is a Newton?
This is a unit of energy used in the International System of units (SI).
What is a Joule?
The step-by-step directions for testing a hypothesis.
What is the procedure?
What is a gram?
This is GPE of a vase with a mass of 3 kilograms sitting 2 meters above the ground.
What is 58.8 Joules (J)?
These two things determine how much Gravitational Potential Energy an object has.
What are mass and height?
Scientifically, you are doing this when you exert energy into a system.
What is work?
This group includes the part of the experiment that are unchanged and used a comparison to determine the effect of a change.
What is the control group?
In order to conform to the International System of Units (SI), this is the unit we would use to measure axolotl growth if we were to conduct an experiment on the effects of the brand of axolotl food on their growth.
What are centimeters?
This is the kinetic energy of a girl running at a speed of 2m/s. She has a mass of 60kg.
What is 120 Joules?
A tennis ball and soccer ball are both resting on a shelf that is 3 meters off of the ground. Determine which one has the greater Potential Energy.
What is the soccer ball?
This is the formula to determine Kinetic energy.
What is KE = 1/2 mass x velocity2?
This is the variable that is changed and tested in the experimental group.
What is the independent variable?
If we were to document the effects of temperature changes for our axolotls' activity levels here in the lab, we would record it using this unit.
What is Celcius?
This is the GPE of a vase with a weight of 29.4 Newtons sitting 2 meters above the ground.
What is 58.8 Joules (J)?
This is the formula you would use to calculate the potential energy of an object suspended in the air if you were given its weight in Newtons.
What is GPE = weight x height?
These two things determine the amount of Kinetic Energy an object possesses.
What are velocity and mass?
This is the variable that you would measure to see what the response is to the change your experiment is measuring.
What is the dependent variable?
When using a graduated cylinder to measure the volume of liquids, this is the unit you would be reading and recording.
This is the kinetic energy of a dog running at a speed of 2m/s. The dog has a mass of 20kg.
What is 40J?
This is the formula you would use to calculate potential energy if you were given the mass of an object in kilograms.
What is GPE = mass x 9.8 x height?
Alex and Connor both weigh the same. Alex runs at a rate of 5 m/s2 and Connor runs at 4.8 m/s2. Identify the boy with greater kinetic energy.
Who is Alex?
These are the six steps of the scientific method.
What is procedure, research, hypothesis, procedure, analysis, and conclusion?
What is weight?
There are two dogs that weigh 15kg running. The brown dog runs twice as fast as the black one. The brown dog has how much more energy than the black one?
What is 4 times (or quadruple) the energy?