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    This document discusses the relationship between potential and kinetic energy as it relates to objects falling from height. It provides the formulas for calculating potential gravitational energy (PE=mgh) and kinetic energy (KE=1/2mv^2). It then works through an example calculation for an object with a mass of 12kg falling from a height of 18m. The document explains that as an object falls, its potential gravitational energy is converted into kinetic energy. Finally, it provides a short summary of how parachutes work to reduce terminal velocity by creating more air resistance, allowing objects or people to descend to the ground more slowly.

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    This document discusses the relationship between potential and kinetic energy as it relates to objects falling from height. It provides the formulas for calculating potential gravitational energy (PE=mgh) and kinetic energy (KE=1/2mv^2). It then works through an example calculation for an object with a mass of 12kg falling from a height of 18m. The document explains that as an object falls, its potential gravitational energy is converted into kinetic energy. Finally, it provides a short summary of how parachutes work to reduce terminal velocity by creating more air resistance, allowing objects or people to descend to the ground more slowly.

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    This document discusses the relationship between potential and kinetic energy as it relates to objects falling from height. It provides the formulas for calculating potential gravitational energy (PE=mgh) and kinetic energy (KE=1/2mv^2). It then works through an example calculation for an object with a mass of 12kg falling from a height of 18m. The document explains that as an object falls, its potential gravitational energy is converted into kinetic energy. Finally, it provides a short summary of how parachutes work to reduce terminal velocity by creating more air resistance, allowing objects or people to descend to the ground more slowly.

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    This document discusses the relationship between potential and kinetic energy as it relates to objects falling from height. It provides the formulas for calculating potential gravitational energy (PE=mgh) and kinetic energy (KE=1/2mv^2). It then works through an example calculation for an object with a mass of 12kg falling from a height of 18m. The document explains that as an object falls, its potential gravitational energy is converted into kinetic energy. Finally, it provides a short summary of how parachutes work to reduce terminal velocity by creating more air resistance, allowing objects or people to descend to the ground more slowly.

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    Link between potential gravitational energy and kinetic energy

    Formula for kinetic energy

    Ek = mv2

    * m * v2

    M= Mass of the object

    V = Velocity of the object

    Formula for gravitational energy

    EP = mgh

    If the mass has units of kilograms and the velocity of meters per second, the kinetic energy has unit
    of kilograms-meters squared per second squared.

    m = 12kg

    h = 18m

    g = 9.8 n

    EGP = 12*9.8*18

    EGP= 1226.8

    Joules are units of energy

    EGP = EK

    mgh = mv2

    mv2 = mgh

    mv2 = 2mgh

    v2 = 2gh

    v = (square root)2gh

    v = (square root)2*9.8*18
    v = 18.78m2/s2

    Terminal velocity

    An object cant move faster because the pressure is the same both ways

    Air resistance stops it

    Shape (smaller falls faster)

    Mass does not play a part in calculating velocity

    Gravitational energy turns into kinetic energy. If a person runs of a cliff they are building up potential
    gravitational energy and when they jump, that is the maximum gravitation energy (EP = mgh). As the
    person starts to fall, the gravitational energy turns into kinetic energy as they fall, when the person
    hits the ground, that is maximum kinetic energy (Ek = mv2). The way the energy works is the same
    with all things. While an object is falling, the speed that it is falling at stays the same because

    Homework

    Parachutes
    (5-10 points and cite websites)

    Parachutes are designed to reduce your terminal velocity by about 90 percent so you hit the
    ground at a relatively low speed (http://www.explainthatstuff.com/how-parachutes-
    work.html)
    If you fall from a plane without a parachute, your relatively compact body zooms through
    the air like a stone; open your parachute and you create more air resistance, drifting to the
    ground more slowly and safelymuch more like a feather.
    (http://www.explainthatstuff.com/how-parachutes-work.html)
    Trapped air creates a push upwards that works against the gravity. This slows down the
    parachute and whatever is tied to it. (http://kinooze.com/how-does-a-parachute-work/)
    Parachutes are similar to a situation where you are putting a lot of force to run fast in the
    forward direction and somebody comes and starts pulling your hand backwards.
    (http://kinooze.com/how-does-a-parachute-work/)
    Artist Leonardo da Vinci drew first ever sophisticated design of a parachute. He drew a cloth-
    covered wooden frame in the shape of a pyramid and it had a man hanging
    underneath. Many years later a Frenchman Louis-Sbastien Lenormand implemented
    modern parachutes. In 1783, he made the first successful jump. (http://kinooze.com/how-
    does-a-parachute-work/)

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