Friday, October 22, 2010

Energy Energy and more Energy

What is energy? Anyone know? Anyone at all?  Well energy is something like work.(you remember that blog right)  Energy is the ability to do work but not work it self.  The two things you need to know about energy is potential and kinetic energy.  Potential energy is like when if someone is about to throw a ball and they are going to put all there strength into throwing it.  So Potential energy is something or someone that is about to do something to that object.  Next is kinetic energy,this is when a person or thing has done some kind of work to that object.  An example of kinetic energy is if someone throws a ball, the ball has lost its potential energy because the person let the ball go.  The ball now has kinetic energy because of its motion.  

Which do you think has the most potential energy, a glass on the floor, a glass on top of the frig, or a glass on a coffee table?  The answer is the glass on top of the frig because the higher the object is the more potential energy it could have.  The higher object does have more kinetic energy then the lower glasses.  


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