Energy & Work

OBJECTIVES
The learners are expected to:
• state the operational definition of potential
energy
give examples of potential energy around
us
• calculate the change in potential energy of a
OBJECTIVES
The learners are expected to:
• explain how mass and height of an object
affects an amount of potential energy

• relate work to potential energy gained.

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How to solve
for WORK?

• Write the given

• Pick the formula.

• Solve the problem and check

your answer
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 Work=Force X Displacement
Unit of WORK-newton.meter or Joules
 A box of 50 Newton of weight
is brought by a boy from A to B
and then brought back to A.
What is the work done by this
boy?

Answer
W = 0 joule
(There is no displacement of the
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 A body moves through a
displacement of 4 m while a
force F of 12 Newton acts on it.
What is the work done by the
force on the body?
Answer
Work = force x displacement
W=Fxd
W = 12N x 4m
W = 48 joule 8
 Sample problem:
1. A person pushes a shopping cart with a
force of 9.0 newtons in a straight line for 12
meters. How much work was done?
Given:
Force-9.0 newtons
Distance-12 meters

Formula: Work=Force x displacement

Solution: W=9.0N X 12m
W=108J
 Sample problem:
2. How far can you push a sled if you exert a
force of 7.0 newtons in the same direction, and
the amount of work on it is 56 joules?
Given:
Force-7.0 newtons
Work-56 meters

Formula: Work=Force x displacement

Solution: 56J=7.0N X d
d=8m
 Sample problem:
3. Jun does 10 Joules of work to pull the
rope over 1.5 meter. How much force did
he use?
Given:
Distance-1.5m
Work-10 Joules

Formula: Work=Force / Displacement

Solution: 10J=F / 1.5m
d=6.6N
 Formula for Work, Force,
Distance
Work=Force x displacement

displacement=Work

Force
Force=Work
Danica uses 20N of force to
push a lawn mower 10 meters.
How much work does she do?

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Maeve does 15 Joules of work
to push the pencil over 1 meter.
How much force did he use?

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Karen uses a force of 25 Newtons
to lift her grocery bag while doing
50 Joules of work. How far did
she lift the grocery bags?
.

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 1. Danica uses 20N of force
to push a lawn mower 10
meters. How much work
does she do?
Calculate Force 2. Maeve does 15 Joules of
work to push the pencil
over 1 meter. How much
force did he use?

3. Karen uses a force of 25

Newtons to lift her grocery
bag while doing 50 Joules
of work. How far did she
lift the grocery bags?
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1) How much work is done
when a force of 33N pulls a
wagon 13 meters?

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 A cinder block is sitting on a
platform 20 m high. It weighs
79 N. The block has potential
energy. Calculate it.

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 A baby carriage is sitting at the
top of a hill that is 21 m high. The
carriage with the baby weighs 12
N. The carriage has potential
energy. Calculate it.

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 A shopper in a supermarket takes a box of sugar
from a shelf that is 1.5 m high because he is
going to bake some muffins. He also needs to get
some blueberries. The sugar has a weight of 5N.
What Potential Energy did the sugar have before it
was taken from the shelf?

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. If 2 J of work is done in raising a
180 g red delicious guava to bring
it to your mouth to take a bite of
the guava, how far is it lifted?

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Given:
P.E. -2 J 9.8m/2-g
m-180 g or 0.180kg
h-?
h=PE/mg
h=2kgm2/s2
1.764kgm/s2
h=1.13m
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