lab 1
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The Total Energy of an Object Always Stays the Same
when the Object is in Motion
In this lab we used a basketball and a motion detector to examine the law of conservation of energy. There are many forms of energy, The law of conservation of energy is the idea that energy cannot be created of destroyed. In this experiment we examined we kinetic and potential energy and how they relate. Kinetic energy is the energy associated with movement and potential energy is energy due to an objects position, otherwise known as stored energy. When an object is in motion it has both kinetic and potential energy, however the total amount of energy is always the same. As a moving objects kinetic energy increases its potential energy decreases and as its potential energy increases its kinetic energy decreases. In this lab we asked the question, does the total energy of an object remain the same, while the objects potential and kinetic energy are changing? My hypothesis is that I think the total energy will remain the same while its kinetic and potential energies are changing.
We tossed a basketball with the mass of 1.835 kg over a motion detector three times and collected the data on a computer...