Potential and Kinetic Energy - Design Your Own Experiment
Design Your Own Experiment
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If you are interested in kinetic energy, you could explore the energy in vibrations, in rotational movement, or in objects moving in straight lines or up and down. Or you could investigate the use of kinetic energy in heat or electricity.
If you are interested in potential energy, you could study the effects of springs. How does the size or flexibility of the spring affect its potential energy? How much weight can a spring move? You could study the swing of a pendulum (using a backyard swing) as its potential energy is converted to kinetic energy and back again.
Check the For More Information section and talk with your science teacher or school or community media specialist to start gathering information on potential and kinetic energy questions that interest you. As you consider possible experiments, be sure to discuss them with...
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