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Module I
Unit 1:Energy
Lesson 3: Engineer It: Transforming
Potential Energy
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ELD Language Support
LessonVocabulary
• field — any region in which a physical force has an effect
ELL/ELD Strategy
Differentiate Meanings Describe what comes to mind when
you hear the word field. Remember that many words have
multiple meanings in English. Pay attention to descriptions of
fields as you complete the lesson and use them to define a field
in your own words.
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Can You ExplainIt?
Why do these two balls bounce differently?
This time-lapse photo
shows the paths of two
bouncing balls. Other than
color, the balls are identical.
The two balls begin at rest
at different heights. Then
they fall to the ground.
Notice that the balls do not
bounce in quite the same
way.
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• Potential energyis the energy
an object has because of its
position, condition, or
chemical composition.
• It is stored energy, and it can
be transformed into kinetic
energy to do work.
• People store energy in many different ways to use for a
variety of tasks.
• Some tasks, such as riding in a car, meet needs.
• Some tasks are only for entertainment, such as playing with
a pogo stick.
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Analyzing Potential Energy
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• When theperson steps on
the pogo stick, the spring
is compressed. Energy is
stored in the spring.
• The person then jumps up
by pushing down on the
foot pegs. This causes the spring to compress even more,
storing more energy.
• The spring then rebounds transforming the stored potential
in the spring to kinetic energy and the person moves upward.
When the person reaches maximum height, the person stops
momentarily. At this point the person has all stored potential
energy.
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Energy in a System
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• As theperson begins to
fall, the stored
gravitational potential is
being converted to
kinetic energy.
• The downward pointing
rod touches the ground and begins to compress the spring.
The kinetic energy of falling is converted back into elastic
potential energy.
• The spring then rebounds transferring the stored potential in
the spring to kinetic energy and the person moves upward
again. The whole process repeats.
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Energy in a System
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Fields and PotentialEnergy
• A field is any region in
which a noncontact force
has an effect on objects in
the field.
• Any object with mass
will be surrounded by a
gravitational field.
• Another object in that field that has mass will be acted on by a
gravitational force
• Since gravity always attracts, moving massive objects further
apart will increase their potential energy.
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Fields and PotentialEnergy
• Different objects can
have different potential
energies depending on
where they are in the field.
• Magnets are surrounded
by magnetic fields. An iron
object in the field will be acted on by a magnetic force.
• Magnetic fields act in a different manner, from gravitational
fields Depending on whether two objects attract or repel each
other, they may gain or lose potential energy as they move
apart.
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Elastic Potential Energy
•Unlike magnetic
and gravitational
potential energy,
elastic, chemical,
and other forms
of stored energy do not depend on a field.
• Instead they depend on the state of matter. A rubber band may
be stretched, a spring compressed or wound up, and archer’s
bow may be bent. All are ways of storing energy.
• Work must still be done or energy added to the system.
• It takes work to wind up the spring in this toy.
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Chemical Potential Energy
•Many toys are
powered by the
chemical potential
energy in batteries.
• This energy is
transformed into electrical energy that may then be
transformed into light or sound.
• Sometimes, the electrical energy is used to power a motor.
• Within the motor, the flowing electrical energy interacts with
magnets to make parts of the motor turn.
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Chemical Potential Energy
Describehow energy is related to the height a ball reaches
when it bounces. Record your evidence.
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The Design Process
•The engineering design
process can be used to
solve many problems.
• It is an iterative process,
which means its steps
are repeated as needed
to find the best possible
solution to a problem.
• The best solution will be
the one that best meets the unique criteria for the problem
while staying within the constraints, or limitations.
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HANDS-ON LAB
Designing aToy to Teach
Potential Energy
Design a toy that
will introduce
children aged 8–10
years to potential
energy.
The device should demonstrate different forms and amounts of
potential energy.
See the Student eBook for a downloadable worksheet or
pages 50-51 for ideas to help you get started.
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Use Science toMake Design Decisions.
• As you design a solution
to a problem, you make
many decisions.
• It is important to use
scientific practices to
help make these
decisions.
• Basing your decisions on science, rather than on random
guessing, will lead to a satisfactory solution more quickly
because your decisions will be more likely to have the desired
effect.
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Use Science toMake Design Decisions
Evaluate and Optimize a Solution
• You must test the solution and evaluate whether or not it
meets your design criteria, given your constraints.
• Some criteria may be more challenging to measure.
• You must develop a method to measure and evaluate your
solution’s performance for each criterion.
• The design may be changed to better meet criteria.
• After making a change, the design must be retested to make
sure that the criteria and constraints are still met.
• This process may be repeated until the solution has the best
performance that is possible for all the criteria. This is the
optimized solution.
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HANDS-ON LAB
Optimize aToy to Teach
Potential Energy
You will evaluate the
prototype you built in
the previous part of this
lesson. You will
determine how well your
toy satisfies the criteria within the given constraints. Then you
will redesign the toy to improve it. Finally, you must test the
redesigned toy to verify that the performance
is improved.
See the Student eBook for a downloadable worksheet or
pages 54-55 for ideas to help you get started.
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Use Science toMake Design Decisions
How can a system be adjusted to change the amount of
potential energy to bounce a ball higher or lower? Record your
evidence.
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TAKE IT FURTHER
SteveOkamoto, Roller Coaster Designer
Steve Okamoto designs roller coasters. This
requires extensive knowledge of mechanical,
civil, and electrical engineering. The coaster
must be visually appealing so Steve must be
an artist as well.
With a partner, discuss the skills and
knowledge necessary for designing a
roller coaster. How might these same
skills and knowledge be used to design
other devices?
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Can You ExplainIt?
Refer to the notes in your
Evidence Notebook to help
you construct an
explanation for why the
balls bounce differently.
• State your claim. Make sure your claim fully explains why
the balls bounce differently.
• Summarize the evidence you have gathered to support
your claim and explain your reasoning.
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#4 The learning experiences in this lesson prepare students for mastery of
MS-PS3-2 Develop a model to describe that when the arrangement of objects interacting at a distance changes, different amounts of potential energy are stored in the system.
MS-ETS1-2 Evaluate competing design solutions using a systematic process to determine how well they meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.
MS-ETS1-4 Develop a model to generate data for iterative testing and modification of a proposed object, tool, or process such that an optimal design can be achieved.
#6 Lesson Objective
Students explore and explain the transformation of potential energy into kinetic energy. Throughout the lesson, students gather evidence to explain why two identical balls dropped from different heights follow different paths.