UNIFORM CIRCULAR MOTION: - stored energy is called “gravitational potential

energy”(GPE)
- motion of an object travelling along a circular path - GPE- energy possessed by a body due to its
at a constant speed but with changing velocity position
- acceleration is “centripetal” because it is always
PE = mgh
directed towards the center of a circular path

CENTRIPETAL FORCE

- requires the second law of motion

- prescence of an unbalanced force to produce KINETIC ENERGY
acceleration
- energy in motion: anything that is moving has KE
- direction of force must be the same as the - vanes in mass
acceleration - directly proportinal to mass and velocity
- force-providing centripetal acceleration
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KE= 𝟐mv2
Other applications:

- planets orbiting the sun

- earth’s artificial sattelite KE – double the mass = double the KE
- universal attraction called “gravitation” KE – double velocity = quadruple the KE
- cars tavelling on a rotunda
MECHANICAL ENERGY
Formulas:
- sum of the two forms of energy
Centripetal Acceleration Centripetal force
E= KE+PE

ELASTIC POTENTIAL ENERGY

WORK - energy possessed by a spring or rubber when it is
- product of the force exterted and the stretched or compress
displacement of an object
- scalar quantity
- object ahs to move a certain distance called the POWER
displacement
- component of force in the direction of motion - rate of doing things
-power and time are inversely proportional
Units:
Eg. Machines - it indicates the rate at which machines
 Joule (J) or kgm2/s2 can do work upon other objects
 Ergs
Formulas:
Formulas:

Work related to Power:

ENERGY
- work is directly proportional to power
- ability or capacity to do work - the difference is the time spent to finish work
- expressed in Joules (J) or ergs - involving time is the power spent in doing work
- scalar quantity
- neither created nor destroyed, only trasnformed

Major Forms:

- mechnical - light -chemical -heat

Kinds of Energy:

POTENTIAL ENERGY

- energy due to gravitational force between the

object and earth is stored