I’m writing an introduction for a lab report about kinetic and potential energy. Here’s one of the specific instructions.
Write a paragraph explaining why conservation of energy is an important topic that is worth doing an experiment about.
I specifically need to know how it relates to our experiment which determined a difference between potential and kinetic energy.
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” All activity requires the transfer of energy. Huge numbers of investigations have shown us that in the course of energy transfers, the total amount of energy remains constant. Energy is conserved . Always. Our investigation will demonstrate that in converting one form of energy to another, the total energy will remain constant. Should we finish with more energy than we started with we will be startled and initiate a new age of free energy. But we expect to confirm that energy is indeed conserved and some will be “lost” as irretrievable frictional heat energy.”
Is this any use?