Potential Energy
Kinetic Energy
Calculation of PE
Calculation of KE
Grab Bag
100

The unit for Potential Energy

What is Joules?

100

The m stands for

What is Mass?

100

Find the PE of the following problems:  A cart is loaded with a brick and pulled at constant speed along an inclined plane to the height of a seat-top. If the mass of the loaded cart is 3.0 kg and the height of the seat top is 0.45 meters, then what is the potential energy of the loaded cart at the height of the seat-top 

What is 13.23 J?

100

Double Jeopardy:

A car is traveling with a velocity of 40 m/s and has a mass of 1120 kg. The car has _____________ energy. Calculate it.

100
Energy of Position

What is Potential Energy?

200

The m stands for

What is mass?

200

The v stands for

What is Velocity?

200

An automobile is sitting on a hill 20 m higher than ground level. Find the automobile's mass if it contains 362,600 J of potential energy

What is 1850 Kg?

200

Determine the kinetic energy of a 1000-kg roller coaster car that is moving with a speed of 20.0 m/s.

What is 200,000 J?

200

Energy of Motion

What is Kinetic Energy?

300

The h stands for

What is Height?

300

State the formula to calculate speed from a Kinetic Energy problem

What is √ 2KE/m?

300

The distance is a book from the floor if the book contains 196 Joules of potential energy and has a mass of 5 kg

What is 4 m?

300

A car is traveling with a velocity of 40 m/s and has a mass of 1120 kg. The car has _____________ energy. Calculate it

What is Kinetic Energy which is 896,000 J?

300

The formula for 1/2mv2

What is Kinetic Energy?

400
The g stands for

What is Gravity?

400

State the formula to calculate the m of a KE problem.

What is 2KE/v2?

400

The potential energy of a 40-kg cannonball is 14000 J. How high was the cannonball to have this much potential energy

What is 35.7 m?

400

You serve a volleyball with a Kinetic Energy of 945 J. The ball leaves your hand at a speed of 30 m/s. The ball has a mass of

What is 2.1 kg?

400

Energy is the ability to

What is Work?

500

Mass and height are measured units are

What are Kilogram and Meter?

500

When potential energy is high, kinetic energy is

What is low?

500

A baby carriage is sitting at the top of a hill that is 21 m high. The carriage with the baby has a mass of 1.5 kg. The carriage has _________________ energy. Calculate it.

What is Potential Energy and it is 308.7 J?

500

Find the mass of a car that is traveling at a velocity of 60 m/s North. The car has 5,040,000 J of Kinetic Energy

What is 2800 kg?

500

Describe the movement of Kinetic Energy and Potential Energy through a ride on a roller coaster from the top of the first hill to the bottom of the first hill.

What is high potential energy/low kinetic energy at the top and low potential energy/high kinetic energy at the bottom?