CYRIAN JAMES G.

ASIDOY
BSCE TAC 2 ( 0844 )
QUIZ ASSIGNMENT

POTENTIAL ENERGY

Potential energy is energy that is stored – or conserved - in an object or substance. This stored
energy is based on the position, arrangement or state of the object or substance.

You can think of it as energy that has the 'potential' to do work. When the position, arrangement or
state of the object changes, the stored energy will be released

There are two main types of potential energy:

 Gravitational potential energy

 Elastic potential energy

For example, it requires energy to compress a spring – but what happens to that energy once the
spring has been compressed? After all, we know that energy cannot be created or destroyed, it
can only be converted from one form to another. Well, in the case of our spring, the kinetic
energy used to compress the spring has been converted to potential energy. When we release the
spring, the stored potential energy will be converted back into kinetic energy.
KINETIC ENERGY

 is the energy of motion. An object that has motion - whether it is vertical or horizontal motion -
has kinetic energy. There are many forms of kinetic energy - vibrational (the energy due to
vibrational motion), rotational (the energy due to rotational motion), and translational (the energy
due to motion from one location to another). To keep matters simple, we will focus upon
translational kinetic energy. The amount of translational kinetic energy (from here on, the phrase
kinetic energy will refer to translational kinetic energy) that an object has depends upon two
variables: the mass (m) of the object and the speed (v) of the object. The following equation is
used to represent the kinetic energy (KE) of an object.

For example, A collision of pool balls is an example of kinetic energy being transferred from one
object to another. Kinetic energy is the energy of mass in motion. The kinetic energy of an object is
the energy it has because of its motion