Weekly Blog Post - "Kinetic and Potential Energy" (1|22|18 - 1|28|18)

Summary: During this week, I learned about kinetic and potential energy. I learned that potential energy is an energy stored within an object while kinetic energy is created while the body who possesses the energy is in motion. I also learned that potential and kinetic energy cannot be formed from nothing and cannot disappear into nothing. I learned some formulas on how to calculate kinetic energy (KE) and potential energy (PE). I also learned that when calculating kinetic energy, you have to multiply the gravitational pull.

SP1: Asking questions and defining problems. I asked questions and defined problems such as: "If you were on a different planet and were producing kinetic energy, how would you measure that if you didn't know the planet's gravitational pull?" and "How does your distance away from the sun and the planet's gravitational pull affect how much kinetic energy you're producing?"   

Image Link: Why did Erwin Schrödinger, Paul Dirac and Wolfgang Pauli work in very small garages? Because they were quantum mechanics. *Because the image has a transparent background, it was overlayed on a white background using PicMonkey to give it better viewing quality.