Differentiate between potential and kinetic energy SPI 0507.10.1

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1. Design a Roller Coaster - Try your hand at designing your own roller coaster. You will be building a conceptual coaster using the physics concepts that are used to design real coasters. You won't need to compute any formulas.
2. The Difference Between Kinetic and Potential Energy - (3:04) a YouTube video
3. Energy Transfer in a Roller Coaster - click your way through a 12 screen learning module
4. Explainer: Kinetic and Potential Eenergy - Science News' attempt at clarifying the difference between these two types of energy
5. Forms of Energy - this page concentrates on potential and kinetic energy
6. Kinetic Energy - more good diagrams and 4 practice problems
7. Kinetic and Potential Energy - comparisoon of the two types of energy with a link to a short video with Paul Hewitt (the Conceptual Physics gurn) explaining the difference
8. Kinetic and Potential Energy of Motion - a STEM learning module
9. Kinetic Energy and Potential Energy Explained - a definition for each type of energy, along with examples, and an explanation of the relationship between the two
10. Kinetic Energy Calculator - This calculator is designed to give the unknown value in the formulae involving Kinetic Energy. Enter any two of the values of mass, velocity and kinetic energy. Click on the Calculate button of the unknown value
11. Potential and Kinetic Energy - explanation by the Math is Fun website
12. Potential Energy - excellent diagrams and 3 practice questions
13. Potential Energy - explanation followed by a mini-quiz [below the ads]
14. Potential and Kinetic Energy - explanation followed by an interactive applet with a question for you to solve
15. Potential and Kinetic Energy (3:55) a YouTube video about the law of conservation of energy
16. Potential and Kinetic Energy Experiment - illustrates the relationship between potential and kinetic energy by raising and dropping a 100 kg anvil  
17. Potential and Kinetic Energy Explained - to understand how they work, you first need to understand what they are
18. Potential Energy vs Kinetic Energy - (2:17) a YouTube video
19. QuickTime movie showing the motion of a roller coaster car down a vertical drop, through two vertical loops, over a small hill, and to the end of the track. The animation portrays the relative amounts of kinetic energy, potential energy, and total mechanical energy of the car as it moves along the track.
20. Skateboard Science - The Exploratorium takes a look at the relationship between skateboarding and energy transformation

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