{"id":27421,"date":"2019-12-04T18:09:15","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T22:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/?p=27421"},"modified":"2019-12-04T18:09:15","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T22:09:15","slug":"year-8-physics-transfers-of-energy-demonstrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/school-news\/year-8-physics-transfers-of-energy-demonstrations\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 8 Physics: Transfers of Energy demonstrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/377412391\" width=\"200\" height=\"132\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><br \/>\nSo, as it turns out, it&#8217;s hard to imagine what elastic potential energy is. It&#8217;s hard to know when gravitational potential energy has given way to kinetic energy. And it&#8217;s even harder to conceptualise how these energies are transferred between objects all around us, all the time, everywhere we look! As one student put it, &#8220;physics is confusing!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, by conducting hands-on demonstrations of difficult concepts it is much easier to\u00a0build understanding. No amount of diagrams or book-based explanations could replace the understanding that emerges from experience, experimentation and practical examples.<\/p>\n<p>And so, with this in mind, Year 8 have set about conducting a range of experiments that demonstrate energy transfers. We wanted to share our experiment from this week with you.<\/p>\n<p>Inspired by the wonder of a Newton&#8217;s Cradle in class, Year 8 set about observing the transfers of energy that occur in falling and colliding objects. Take a look at our video to see our amazing results and\u00a0see how this helps us to observe transfers of energy in action.<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly, by looking at a slow motion\u00a0video of a basketball bouncing, it is quite easy to see, describe and explain the transfer\u00a0of\u00a0elastic potential energy into kinetic energy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff So, as it turns out, it&#8217;s hard to imagine what elastic potential energy is. It&#8217;s hard to know when gravitational potential energy has given way to kinetic energy. And it&#8217;s even harder to conceptualise how these energies are transferred between objects all around us, all the time, everywhere we look! As one student put [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[42,1,46],"tags":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27421"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27421"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27423,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27421\/revisions\/27423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}