Summary

Energy cannot be created or destroyed — only stored differently and transferred between stores. This topic builds the habit of naming the stores before and after a change, then putting numbers to them: kinetic, gravitational and elastic potential energy, thermal energy and specific heat capacity, and power as the rate of transfer.

Assessments

Lessons

P1.1 · Energy changes in a system
P1.1.1	Energy stores and systems
P1.1.2	Changes in energy
P1.1.3	Energy changes in systems
P1.1.4	Power
P1.2 · Conservation and dissipation of energy
P1.2.1	Energy transfers in a system
P1.2.2	Efficiency
P1.3 · National and global energy resources
P1.3	Energy resources, renewable and non-renewable

Labs

• Energy & Momentum labs — instruction sheets from the Physics Lab Library
• Thermal labs — instruction sheets from the Physics Lab Library

Video Support