Unit 4: Energy
Text Resources
Material:
Learning Targets:
- Walker (Pearson) chapter 6
- OpenStax - College Physics for AP: Chapter 7
- College Physics - Etkina et al. 2014: Chapter 6
Material:
Learning Targets:
- Be able to explain work
- Be able to determine the correct sign of work and interpret the meaning of the sign
- Be able to calculate work including with friction
- Be able to calculate energy transfers between work, kinetic energy and potential energy
- Be able to determine work from force-distance graphs
- Be able to explain and determine power
- Be able to use Hooks law to find a spring constant
- Be able to determine the energy stored in a spring
- Be able to graph kinetic and potential energy of an object in motion
- Be able to calculate power using work and time or force and velocity