Monday, March 8, 2010

This week we learned about different types of energy transfers. The types of energy's we learned about are the following:
kinetic energy- energy that is when movement is accellerating.
elastic potential energy- energy that is when elastic is being stretched.
internal energy- energy when something is at it's highest point.
gravitational potential energy- energy when it's at it's lowest point.

I don't think there was any more. To transfer the energy, you would need an experiment to do this. As an example, the one with the elephant on the trampoline. The types of energy used in this are kinetic energy because the elephant was falling onto the trampoline after being at his highest point. Also elastic potential energy because the trampoline has elastic and when the elephant hits it after being at it's highest point it goes all the way back dow. And lastly internal energy because the elephant got to it's highest point when he went all the way up in the air, and finally, gravitational potential energy because the elephant reached it's lowest point when landing on the trampoline after coming down from it's highest point.

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