3.6 Problem Solving

Conservation of Energy

Mechanical

Up to this point, we've considered energy in a great variety of forms.

For our calculations, we're going to mainly focus on "mechanical" forms of energy.

Mechanical forms of energy include kinetic energy and potential energy (with work used to involve forces adding or removing energy from a system).

Being able to calculate both of these, allows us to solve a wide variety of energy conservation problems.  


Here's the general concept we'll be looking at - conversions between Ek and Ep and back to Ek.