Mission WE6: Energy Bar Charts

Mission WE6 focuses on the use of work-energy bar charts to describe the energy changes that are occuring for an object from the initial state to the final state of motion. The mission consists of 36 questions organized into 9 Question Groups. You must answer one question from each Question Group to complete the mission. The learning outcome for this mission is ...
 

Learning Outcome

• The student should be able to utilize a bar chart and the work-energy relationship to analyze a physical situation and develop an equation which relates the energies of the initial and final states of a motion.

 

Launch Mission WE6

 

Getting Help

If you are not familiar with this topic, then you should first learn about the topic using our written Tutorial or our Video Tutorial:
 

The Physics Classroom - Work, Energy and Power Unit, Lesson 2, Part c
 

• How can one determine if an object possesses kinetic energy in the initial or final state of its motion?
• How can one determine if an object possesses potential energy in the initial or final state of its motion?
• What types of forces are internal (i.e., conservative) and what types are external (i.e., non-conservative)?
• What is work?
• How can one know when a specific force is doing work upon an object?
• How are work-energy bar charts constructed?

 

Video Tutorials:

Work-Energy Bar Charts

 

 

Question-Specific Help

Each Question Group has its own Help page with information specific to the question. You can access the Help page from within the mission by tapping on the Help Me! icon (textbook). For your convenience, links to those pages are provided below: