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Lesson Plan: Mechanical Energy Science • First Year of Preparatory School
This lesson plan includes the objectives, prerequisites, and exclusions of the lesson teaching students how to relate the mechanical, kinetic, and gravitational potential energies of an object that work is done on.
Objectives
Students will be able to
- recall that doing work can cause a change in the potential and kinetic energies of an object,
- recall that the mechanical energy of an object is the sum of its kinetic and potential energies,
- use the formula (mechanical energy kinetic energy potential energy).
Prerequisites
Students should already be familiar with
- kinetic energy, , as an energy category associated with the speed of object motion,
- potential energy, , being associated with height above Earth,
- kinetic and gravitational energies transferring to and from each other.
Exclusions
Students will not cover
- conservation of energy,
- dissipation of energy,
- ,
- ,
- .
