Potential vs Kinetic Energy

Potential vs Kinetic Energy

Essential Question: How do kinetic and potential energy work together?

Open Ended

Look at the following image to answer the questions below.

1. Which car has more kinetic energy? Why?

2. Which has more kinetic energy the truck or the green car? Why?

Open Ended

If you had a ball just sitting in your hand would that ball have energy? Why or why not?

Open Ended

Can a ball that is dropped have potential energy and kinetic energy at the same time? Explain your answer.

Open Ended

Law of Conservation: energy can be transformed from one form into another, but energy cannot be created or destroyed.

So, what does that mean? Write what the law of conservation is in your own words.

Open Ended

Use this picture to explain why there can be kinetic and potential energy at the same time.

Multiple Choice

What two things determine the amount of kinetic energy an object has?

• height and speed

• force and speed

• height and mass

• mass and speed

Multiple Choice

What two factors determine the gravitational potential energy between an object and the earth?

• speed and height

• height and mass

• force and speed

• speed and mass

Multiple Choice

True or False: gravitational potential energy decreases as it gets closer to earth

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

If a ball is thrown in the air where is the greatest potential energy of the ball?

• highest point

• lowest point

• in the middle