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Popper Energy

Posted on January 1, 2011 by Arbor Scientific

Students will calculate the potential and kinetic energy of a popper toy using simple formulas. Potential energy is found by observing the maximum height. Kinetic energy is found by using a dynamics formula to find the popper’s starting velocity. Students will find that the popper reaches a greater height than it should, given the amount [...]

This post was posted in Labs, Energy & Work and was tagged with conservation of energy, potential, kinetic, popper

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