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    Elastic Potential Energy

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    Sheila Marie Amigo
    The document discusses elastic potential energy. It explains that elastic potential energy is the energy stored in objects like springs and rubber bands when they are stretched or compressed from their resting position. The energy is stored due to the elastic properties of these objects, and allows them to return to their original shape once the stretching or compressing force is removed. It further explains that the elastic potential energy of a spring or rubber band can be calculated using the formula of one-half the spring constant (k) multiplied by the square of the deformation (x), where k is a measure of the object's stiffness and x is the change in length from the object's resting position.

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    Elastic Potential Energy

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    The document discusses elastic potential energy. It explains that elastic potential energy is the energy stored in objects like springs and rubber bands when they are stretched or compressed from their resting position. The energy is stored due to the elastic properties of these objects, and allows them to return to their original shape once the stretching or compressing force is removed. It further explains that the elastic potential energy of a spring or rubber band can be calculated using the formula of one-half the spring constant (k) multiplied by the square of the deformation (x), where k is a measure of the object's stiffness and x is the change in length from the object's resting position.

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    The document discusses elastic potential energy. It explains that elastic potential energy is the energy stored in objects like springs and rubber bands when they are stretched or compressed from their resting position. The energy is stored due to the elastic properties of these objects, and allows them to return to their original shape once the stretching or compressing force is removed. It further explains that the elastic potential energy of a spring or rubber band can be calculated using the formula of one-half the spring constant (k) multiplied by the square of the deformation (x), where k is a measure of the object's stiffness and x is the change in length from the object's resting position.

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    365 views26 pages

    Elastic Potential Energy

    Uploaded by

    Sheila Marie Amigo
    The document discusses elastic potential energy. It explains that elastic potential energy is the energy stored in objects like springs and rubber bands when they are stretched or compressed from their resting position. The energy is stored due to the elastic properties of these objects, and allows them to return to their original shape once the stretching or compressing force is removed. It further explains that the elastic potential energy of a spring or rubber band can be calculated using the formula of one-half the spring constant (k) multiplied by the square of the deformation (x), where k is a measure of the object's stiffness and x is the change in length from the object's resting position.

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    Elastic

    potential
    energy

    1. What happens to the toy?

    2. What kind of energy is


    stored in the rubber band?

    3. What kind of energy does a


    rolling toy have?

    4. What transformation of
    energy happens in a rolling
    toy?

    Springs and rubber bands


    are called elastics

    When elastics are stretched and then


    let go, they will return to their original
    form if they were not stretched
    beyond their elastic limit.

    Springs

    free length

    Force and deformation

    x
    When you apply a force to a spring, it deforms.

    Work

    x
    The applied force does work on the spring.
    The change in the springs length is called the deformation, x.

    Elastic potential energy

    x
    The work done to stretch or compress the spring
    is stored in the spring as elastic potential energy.

    Equations

    x
    The elastic potential energy of a spring is
    one half the product of its spring constant
    multiplied by the square of its deformation.

    What is the spring constant k ?


    The spring constant tells you the stiffness of the spring.

    Stiff springs have high spring constants.

    Weak springs have low spring constants.

    The spring constant k is a property of the spring itself.


    It does not change when the spring is deformed.

    Units of the spring constant


    The spring constant has units of N/m, or newtons per meter.

    Example: A 300 N/m spring requires 300 N


    of force to stretch 1 meter.

    A stiff spring needs a large force to stretch it


    a meter, so it has a large spring constant.

    A stiff spring stores more potential energy


    per meter of stretch.

    What is x ?
    The deformation x is the change
    in the length of the spring.
    It can be positive or negative.
    It points in the opposite
    direction of the spring force.
    It has units of meters.

    Elastic potential energy

    Elastic potential energy

    Work

    W = Fd
    Work is force times distance.

    Hookes law

    W = Fd
    F = -kx

    Hookes law

    W = Fd
    F = -kx

    where k is the spring constant


    in N/m . . .
    and x is the change in length
    of the spring in meters.

    Elastic potential energy

    Ep is equal to the work done to


    deform the spring by an amount x.

    Elastic potential energy

    This expression is true for


    more than just springs!

    Elastic potential energy

    Elastic potential energy is stored in all objects that


    can deform and spring back to their original shape.

    Elastic potential energy

    such as a rubber band . . .

    Typical elastic potential energies

    Assessment
    1. What kind of energy is stored in the rubber band?
    2. What type of materials are rubber bands and spring ?
    3. What is the k in the formula?
    4. What will happen to the spring or rubber bands when you stretch it or apply force on it?
    5. What kind of potential energy does a rubber band have?

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