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=Mechanical Energy = =Who are we?= Denton Dynamos - New York - Tanya, Angela, and Garrick Collaborative Class - Nevada - Andrew, Arlene, and Isabella Our Experiments

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Your assignment is to complete each sentence below. Then, perform some experiments proving your answers. Keep careful records of your results. Choose one experiment you would like the whole class to perform. Include that experiment below. Finally, answer the essential questions on the home page. Include the answers below.

media type="custom" key="7559761" == Our Incomplete Sentences: ==
 * 1) Mechanical Energy can be found:
 * 2) An example of mechanical energy in its potential form is:
 * 3) An example of mechanical energy in its kinetic form is:
 * 4) An example ofmechanical energy transforming to another form of energy is:

== Our Experiment: == ==Our Essential Questions: ==

1.Place ruler at the six inch line on the edge of the table.
 * ===Our Energy Experiment === ||  || ===<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Mechanical Energy - Denton Dynamos[[file:Mechanical Energy Experiment.doc]] === ||   || ===<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Our Energy Experiment === ||   || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Mechanical Energy ||
 * ====<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Potential - Kinetic Energy ==== ||  ||   ||   || ====<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Transforming Energy ==== ||   ||   ||
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Question: (What question were you trying to investigate?) ||  || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-If you use a lever and fulcrum to move a pebble and you change the location of your fulcrum, will it effect the distance the pebble can travel? ||   || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Question: (What question were you trying to investigate?) ||   || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px;">Does the distance an object falls change the amount of sound that is produced when it strikes an empty box? ||
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Hypothesis: (What did you think was going to happen?) ||  || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-If the fulcrum is moved closer to the pebble, the pebble will travel less distance than if the fulcrum if moved further away from the pebble. ||   || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Hypothesis: (What did you think was going to happen?) ||   || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px;">We think more sound will be produced when the object is dropped from 18 inches because it falls further it is going faster. ||
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Method: (How did you test your question?) ||  || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Steps/Methods

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">2.Place the pebble on the end of the ruler that is on the table.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">3.Push (no tapping please PUSH!) the other end of the ruler that is not on the table.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">4. Let the pebble fall onto the floor, and use the tape measure to measure the distance from under the table’s edge on the floor to the ball.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">5.Record the distance and where you placed your fulcrum on a piece of paper.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">6. Put the fulcrum at the the nine inch line and then repeat the steps 2-4 and record your answer.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">7. Move the fulcrum to the three inch line and repeat the steps above once more and record your answer. ||  || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Method: (How did you test your question?) ||   || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- 1. A pulley <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">2. A string 3 . A solid object( like a rock) 4 . A hollow object 5. Ruler 6. voice recorder

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">1) We will use a pulley to raise an object exactly 6 inches above an upside down tissue box and we will record the amount of sound produced when we drop the object onto the box. 2) We will repeat the process at 12 and 18 inches. || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">1 small pebble no bigger than the first joint of your thumb, <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">1 non bendable twelve inch ruler, 1 roll tape measure, a pencil and a piece of paper. ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Materials: ||  || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">1 table (any size, but with no rounded edge),
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Variable ||  || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-position of the fulcrum ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Observations/Results: (What did you discover?) ||  || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[[file:Mechanical Energy Worksheet.doc]] ||   || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Observations/Results: (What did you discover?) ||   || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- ||
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Conclusion: (Was your hypothesis correct? Why do you think things turned out the way they did?) ||  || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- ||   || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Conclusion: (Was your hypothesis correct? Why do you think things turned out the way they did?) ||   || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- ||
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Further Questions: (What other kinds of experiments could you do in the future related to this topic? What other questions would be interesting to ask?) ||  || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- ||   || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Further Questions: (What other kinds of experiments could you do in the future related to this topic? What other questions would be interesting to ask?) ||   || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- ||
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 * ===<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** Our Energy Experiment ** === ||  || ===<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** Mechanical Energy ** === ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   || ===<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** Our Energy experiment ** === ||   || Mechanical Energy ||
 * ====<span style="font-size: 1.06em; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** Potential - KInetic Energy ** ==== ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   || ====<span style="font-size: 1.06em; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;"> Transforming Energy  ==== ||   ||   ||
 * Question: (What question were you trying to investigate?) ||  || - ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||  Question: (What question were you trying to investigate?) ||   || - ||
 * Hypothesis: (What did you think was going to happen?) ||  || - ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||  Hypothesis: (What did you think was going to happen?) ||   || - ||
 * Method: (How did you test your question?) ||  || - ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||  Method: (How did you test your question?) ||   || - ||
 * Observations/Results: (What did you discover?) ||  || - ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||  Observations/Results: (What did you discover?) ||   || - ||
 * Conclusion: (Was your hypothesis correct? Why do you think things turned out the way they did?) ||  || - ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||  Conclusion: (Was your hypothesis correct? Why do you think things turned out the way they did?) ||   || - ||
 * Further Questions: (What other kinds of experiments could you do in the future related to this topic? What other questions would be interesting to ask?) ||  || - ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||  Further Questions: (What other kinds of experiments could you do in the future related to this topic? What other questions would be interesting to ask?) ||   || - ||
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