Chapter 8 Energy
In this chapter you will focus on the topics of energy.
Learning Outcomes
After successful completion of this chapter, you will be able to:
- Define work
- Define kinetic energy
- Evaluate the relationship between work and kinetic energy
- Represent energy concepts using multiple representations (diagrams, graphs, words, equations)
- Define a system
- Define potential energy for a system
- Define mechanical energy and determine when mechanical energy is conserved in a system
- Analyze a system using a conservation of energy approach
- Draw diagrams useful for analysis of a system using an energy approach
- Analyze energy diagrams depicting the total energy as the sum of potential and kinetic energy
- Differentiate between conservative and non-conservative forces in an energy framework
