Mission WE8: Energy Analysis

Mission WE8 requires that you use energy relationships and formulas to determine the kinetic and potential energies of an object at varying locations and to compute speeds and heights at such locations. The mission consists of 16 questions organized into 8 Question Groups. You must answer one question from each Question Group to complete the mission. The learning outcomes for this mission are ...
 

Learning Outcomes

• The student should be able to conduct an energy analysis to determine the kinetic and/or the potential energy of an object at a given location.
  The student should be able to conduct an energy analysis to determine the height or speed of an object at a given location.

 

Launch Mission WE8

 

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:

The Physics Classroom - Work, Energy and Power Unit, Lesson 2, Part b
 

• How is mass, speed and height information related to the potential energy of an object?
• How is mass, speed and height information related to the kinetic energy of an object?
• How can mechanical energy conservation be used to predict the amount of kinetic or potential energy of an object in any give state of its motion?

 
 

Video Tutorials:

Mechanical Energy Conservation

 

 

Question-Specific Help

Each Question Group has its own Help page with information specific to the question. You can access the Help page from within the mission by tapping on the Help Me! icon (textbook). For your convenience, links to those pages are provided below: