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Energy conservation
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- Summary
- The total energy Em=Ec+Ep remains constant. It is shared between potential energy and kinetic energy in accordance with the energy conservation laws.
Click on the mass to modify its initial conditions.
- Learning objectives
- To illustrate the link between energy and motion.
- To understand how potential energy transforms into kinetic energy while conserving the total amount of energy.
- How to use the animation
Click on
to go on step by step.Click and drag the moving mass to set new initial conditions.
- Keywords
- kinetic, potential-energy, conservation, spring, elastic, work, shm, oscillation, harmonic
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