August 2020
Intermediate to advanced
280 pages
4h 27m
English
8.1 Potential and Kinetic Energy Simulation
This is a piece of simple physics. We will look at the energy of a heavy ball which is dropped from a 10 meter tower. The ball is relatively heavy (10kg), and it is suspended from a cable at the top of the tower. When the cable is cut, the ball will accelerate under the force of gravity to the ground. We can make some calculations of the energy the ball has.
We will use some of the basic equations of motion.
s = u*t + 0.5*f*t2
v = u + f*t
where
s is the distance traveled
u is the initial velocity
t is the time
f is the acceleration
v is the final velocity
So in ...
