GPE and KE Worksheet #1

1. What is the GPE of a 2 kg block 5 m above the floor?

2. What is the GPE of a 3 kg ball that is 2m above the floor?

3. Joe throws a 4 kg stone straight up and it reaches a height of 5 m. What is its GPE at its
highest point?

4. Which has more GPE, a 6 kg ball at 6 m or a 7 kg rock at 5 m in height?

5. Which has more GPE a 2.5 kg book at 4 meters or a 1 kg paperweight at 8 m in height?

. 6. What is the GPE of a 500g box of chocolates 2 m above the ground?

7. How high do you have to lift a 5 kg box to give it 98 J of GPE?

8. How high do you have to lift a 1 kg ball to give it 49 J of GPE?

9. What is the KE of a 4 kg mass at 3 m/s?

10. What is the KE of an 8 kg mass at 5 m/s?

11. What is the KE of a 9 kg mass at 2 m/s?

12. What has more KE, a 3 kg mass at 5 m/s or a 2 kg mass at 8 m/s?

13. What has more KE a 2 kg mass at 10 m/s or a 20 kg mass at 3 m/s?

14. What is the mass of an object that has 100 J of KE when moving at 5 m/s?

15. What is the mass of an object that has 32 J of KE when moving at 2 m/s?

16.A 6 kg mass has a KE of 75 J, what is its velocity?

17. An 8 kg mass has a KE of 144 J, what is its velocity?

18. What has more energy, a 2 kg mass at 10 m/s or a 2 kg mass 5 m above the ground?

19. What has more energy, a 20 kg mass moving at 9 m/s, or a 4 kg mass 25 m above the
floor?

20. Fred throws a 6 kg stone into the air with an upward velocity of 10 m/s. What will be the
GPE of the stone at its highest point?

21. Martha drops a 1 kg rock off the top of Black Oak Canyon which is 1OOm deep. What is
the KE of the rock the instant before it hits bottom?

22. Jessica throws a 2 kg ball into the air at 7m/s. How high will the ball go?
 GPE and KE Worksheet #2

1. What is the GPE of a 3 kg block 10 m above the floor?

2. What is the KE of a 6 kg mass at 4 m/s?

3. What is the GPE of a 2 kg ball that is 5 m above the floor?

4. What is the KE of a 10 kg mass at 1 m/s?

5. What is the GPE of a 10 kg rock that is 100 m above the earth?

6. Martha throws a 1 kg ball straight up and it reaches a height of 10 m. What is its GPE at
its highest point?

7. What is the KE of a 20 kg mass at 9 m/s?

8. Which has more GPE, a 4 kg ball at 20 m or a 7 kg rock at 11 m in height?

9. What has more KE, an 8 kg mass at 11 m/s or a 2 kg mass at 25 m/s?

10. Which has more GPE a 2.5 kg book at 4 meters or a 1 kg paperweight at 8 m in height?

11. How high do you have to lift a 1 kg box of candy to give it 98 J of GPE?

12. What is the mass of an object that has 324 J of KE when moving at 9 m/s?

13.A 10 kg mass has a KE of 125 J, what is its velocity?

14. What has more energy, a 4 kg mass at 11 m/s or a 12 kg mass 2m above the ground?

15. What has more energy, a 20 kg mass moving at 9 m/s, or a 4 kg mass 25 m above the
floor?

16. Energy in motion is called?

17. Stored energy is called?

18. The formula for Kinetic energy is?

19. The formula for potential energy is?

20. Energy is measured in?