Energy

Day 6 Energy Equations and Energy of a Basketball

Warm up Part 1

FIND: The Reaching Goals Plan

Handout on your desk
COMPLETE: Front page and turn it
into blue bin on table
BE THOUGHTFUL: With your responses
Some suggestions for strategies to reach
goal: limiting side conversations; doing my
work; respecting the right to learn;
cooperating with classmates

TIME: 2 MINUTES
WHEN DONE: Open Notebook to Unit
5 Warm Up Section

Warm up Part 2
How does this comic relate to Kinetic
Energy, Gravitional Potential Energy, and
Work?(Use complete sentences)
1. The comic relates to KE, when
_______________.
2. This comic relates to
GPE, when _________.
3. This comic relates to
work, when _________.

Agenda
- Notes: Energy Equations!!!!
- Energy

of a Basketball

- Redesign

Final Rocket
(Thursday)

Learning Targets
I can use a model to analyze the
energy of a rocket in flight
I can use a model to calculate
the energy of a rocket in flight

Cornell Notes: RIGHT SIDE

FIND: The next two blank pages
SET UP: Cornell Notes on right side
Title: Energy Equations
Essential Questions:
What variables affect KE and GPE?
How do KE and GPE connect to the
Total Mechanical Energy?
TIME: 90 seconds
WHEN DONE: Put your pen/pencil down

Kinetic Energy - Energy of

motion
Think quietly (before we take
notes)
What variables would affect the kinetic
energy?
In other words, what would make KE
increase or decrease?

Share out with your table

group
Share out with the class

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EQ
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Energy
Equations
What variables affect KE and GPE?
How do KE and GPE connect to the Total
Mechanical Energy?

Kinetic Energy
KE depends on the mass and
velocity of an object
Mass and KE have a directly
proportional relationship
Velocity2 and KE have a directly
proportional relationship

1
2
KE= mv
2
KE equals one-half multiplied by the mass and
multiplied by the velocity squared

Potential Energy -Stored energy

Think quietly
What variables would affect potential
energy? In other words, what would
make GPE increase or decrease?

Share out with your table

group
Share out with the class

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EQ
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Energy
Equations
What variables affect KE and GPE?
How do KE and GPE connect to the Total
Mechanical Energy?
Down
the
page

Gravitational Potential Energy

GPE depends on the mass, height
and
the gravity acting on an
object
Mass and GPE have a directly
proportional relationship
Height and GPE have a directly
proportional relationship

GPE = m * g * h

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EQ
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Energy
Equations
What variables affect KE and GPE?
How do KE and GPE connect to the Total
Mechanical Energy?
Down
the
page

Total Mechanical Energy (TME)

Total Mechanical Energy is the sum
of
KE and GPE

GPE + KE = TME

You can calculate TME for:

An object (one thing)
A system (a group of interacting

left hand side

TIME: 1 minute
WHEN DONE: Begin
calculating TME at each
point

Total Mechanical Energy (TME)

FOR EACH POINT: Calculate the TME in
your notebook

TOTAL MECHANICAL ENERGY AT:

Point A: _________________J
Point D: _________________J
Point B: _________________J
Point E: _________________J
Point C: _________________J

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EQ
s

Energy
Equations
What variables affect KE and GPE?
How do KE and GPE connect to the Total
Mechanical Energy?
Down
the
page

Law of Conservation of Energy

Energy cannot be created or
destroyed, only transferred or
transformed from
one form to
another.
Energy was transferred in the roller
coaster when ___________________.

Energy of a Basketball
COMPLETE: Energy of Basketball
Assignment
USE: Your notes and table partners
TIME: 22 minutes
WHEN DONE: Begin working on
large handout

Exit ticket
FIND: YOUR Reaching
Goals Plans
COMPLETE: Reflection
about Class
BE THOUGHTFUL: With
your responses
TIME: 3 MINUTES