Work and Mechanical Energy on Earth

Objectives

• Discover the relationship between the work done by the net force and the change in kinetic energy

• Explore the relationship between the mechanical energy change, which is the sum of kinetic energy and potential energy, and the work done by the friction force

Curriculum alignment

AP

4.2 Work and Mechanical Energy

4.3 Conservation of Energy, the Work-Energy Principle

IB

2.3 – Work, energy and power

• Categories: Mechanics Laboratory