2/5 PotU: Kinetic and gravitational energy practice

photo showing riders on a roller coaster going down a steep hill

Hi all. I’m out sick today, so we’ll have to put off mousetrap cars. Today you’ll have some more practice with calculating kinetic energy.

Honors students, you’ll work with a new equation for gravitational potential energy in the second worksheet.

Documents

File Name: gpe-word-problems.pdf

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File Name: kinetic_and_potential_energy_worksheet.pdf

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1/23-24 AP Phys: Energy practice problems in your textbook

Homework/classwork

Thursday

Page 152, Problems 21-24

Friday

Page 153, Problems 33, 35 (both spring energy), 47 (a red, make sure to do drawings before you start!), 29, 30, 32, 34, 43

Jackson suggests you do Problems 73 and 75; I guess I’ll have to try these this weekend 🙂

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