Sunday, January 30, 2011

Conservation of Energy

     Understanding conservation of energy was much easier than I originally thought.  If a person knows the simple rule that initial energy = final energy, then they can pretty much understand any energy problem.  In my example below, an archery business wants to make the best bow and arrow set in the business, but doesn't know what spring constant to use in their bow in order for their arrow to fly at 34 m/s.  The comic explains how to go from a simple equation like initial energy = final energy, to finding a specific variable, for example, the spring constant.

My system (I didn't have enough panels to put in in the pixton):





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1 comment:

  1. sorry Mrs. Gende - I accidentally deleted all of the comments on this post because I deleted the old one and copied it into a new one so I could fix things easier...but I corrected everything you told me to.

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