Here’s a fun experiment that uses a penny in free fall to practice calculating kinetic energy.

[am4show have=’p9;p58;’ guest_error=’Guest error message’ user_error=’User error message’ ]

Energy changes to other forms of energy all the time. The electrical energy coming out of a wall socket transfers to light energy in the lamp. The chemical energy in a battery transfers to electrical energy which transfers to sound energy in your personal stereo. In the case of the ball falling, gravitational potential energy transfers to kinetic energy, the energy of motion.

Click here to go to next lesson on Potential Energy.

[/am4show]