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The Potential Energy Video Tutorial discusses the nature of potential energy as an energy stored in an object as a result of its position. Both gravitational and elastic potential energy are discussed and numerous examples are provided with attention given to both the conceptual and the mathematical aspects of these two energy forms.
The video lesson answers the following questions:
What is gravitational potential energy and how do you calculate it?
What is elastic potential energy and how do you calculate it?
Name That Energy Concept Builder
Can you read a statement of a physical scenario and identify whether the described object has KE or PE or both or neither? You probably need to develop this skill and the Name That Energy Concept Builder will help.
What's Up (or Down) with KE and PE? Concept Builder
Look for verbal cues within a descrption and determine if the KE and the PE are increasing, decreasing or remaining constant. Great practice. Needed practice.
Minds On Phyiscs - Mission WE3: Kinetic and Potential Energy
You want to raise your game a notch? Here's how: click this link and try the newly revised Minds On Physics mission on the topic of kinetic end potential energy. Your reward will be given on test day.
Teacher Toolkits, Work-Energy Fundamentals
Try a Teacher Toolkit ... you might be very glad that you did. Each toolkit includes annotated links to vetted resources from across the web that we feel reliably support the specific topic. Give this one on work and energy a try.
Name That Energy Concept Builder
In this Concept Builder, students read a physical scenario and identify whether the described object has KE or PE or both or neither. Great practice.
What's Up (or Down) with KE and PE? Concept Builder
In this Concept Builder, students look for verbal cues within a descrption and determine if the KE and the PE are increasing, decreasing or remaining constant. Great practice. And needed practice.
Minds On Phyiscs - Mission WE3: Kinetic and Potential Energy
Our newly revised HTML5 version of Minds On Physics can provide your students the workout they need to be successful in Physics. Each question in these interactive questioning modules are accompanied by a question-specicific help page. Best of all, you can purchase an account and track your students' progress. For intense practice, you can't go wrong with "MOPs".
Do you like the slides we used? They are available in our low cost Teacher Presentation Pack, along with other updated materials used in our presentation.