Unit 5:  Work, Energy, and Power

Big Ideas

• • • Work

    • Energy

      • • Moving (kinetic) energy

        • Gravitational potential energy

    • Work-KE theorem

    • Conservation of energy

    • Nonconservative forces

    • Springs

      • • Hooke’s Law

        • Elastic PE

        • Spring constant

    • Power

Labs and Activities

• • • Impact energy lab

    • Conservation of energy ramp lab

    • Conservation of energy pendulum lab

    • I’ve got the power lab

Vocabulary

Work, energy, kinetic energy, potential energy, nonconservative forces, springs constant, power, Joules, Watts