The Physics Classroom: Work, Energy, and Power

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written by Tom Henderson

This web site contains a number of tutorials relating to work and energy. Each tutorial explains a subject and provides exercises to test the user's understanding. Some are accompanied by images, animations or graphs to illustrate the concepts. Among the subjects are work, potential and kinetic energy, mechanical energy, power and the work-energy theorem.

http://www.physicsclassroom.com/Class/energy/

Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Classical Mechanics - Work and Energy General Physics - Measurement/Units	- High School - Middle School	- Instructional Material = Problem/Problem Set = Tutorial

Appropriate Courses	Categories	Ratings
- Physical Science - Physics First - Conceptual Physics - Algebra-based Physics - AP Physics	- Activity - Laboratory - Assessment - New teachers	Currently 0.0/5 Want to rate this material? Login here!

Intended Users:: Learner
Educator
Formats:: text/html
image/gif
Access Rights:: Free access
Restriction:: © 1996 Tom Henderson
Keywords:: conservation of energy, external force, internal force, kinetic energy, potential energy, power, work, work-energy theorem
Record Cloner:: Metadata instance created December 14, 2004 by Melanie Carter
Record Updated:: October 14, 2011 by Caroline Hall
Last Update when Cataloged:: December 12, 2004

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This resource is part of 2 Physics Front Topical Units.

Topic: Conservation of Energy
Unit Title: Teaching About Energy

The concepts of work, power, and Conservation of Energy are nicely tied together in this interactive tutorial. It provides excellent content support for K-8 science teachers.

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Physical Sciences K-8 Teaching About Energy Unit

Topic: Conservation of Energy
Unit Title: What is Energy?

The author of The Physics Classroom has tied together the concepts of work, power, and Conservation of Energy in this set of 6 interactive tutorials for high school students. It provides a good foundation for future understanding of the Work-Energy Theorem. This section is appropriate for Physics First, as well as high school physics courses.

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