Mission WE6 Energy Bar Charts
Mission WE6 focuses on the use of work-energy bar charts to describe the energy changes that are occuring for an object from the initial state to the final state of motion. The mission consists of 36 questions organized into 9 Question Groups. You must answer one question from each Question Group to complete the mission. The learning outcome for this mission is ...
Learning Outcomes
- The student should be able to utilize a bar chart and the work-energy relationship to analyze a physical situation and develop an equation which relates the energies of the initial and final states of a motion.
Getting Help
If you are not familiar with this topic, then you should first learn about the topic using our written Tutorial or our Video Tutorial:
- How can one determine if an object possesses kinetic energy in the initial or final state of its motion?
- How can one determine if an object possesses potential energy in the initial or final state of its motion?
- What types of forces are internal (i.e., conservative) and what types are external (i.e., non-conservative)?
- What is work?
- How can one know when a specific force is doing work upon an object?
- How are work-energy bar charts constructed?