Use the chart for the cart at Point A. What is its total mechanical energy at Point A?

A spring cart is shown at one instant. What total mechanical energy does the chart show?

For the pendulum bob at the marked position, what is the total mechanical energy?

At the coaster's low point, what total mechanical energy is represented?

The chart shows a glider attached to a spring. What is the glider-spring system's total mechanical energy?

For the ball at the top of its path, what total mechanical energy is shown?

A skateboarder is shown at Point C. What is the total mechanical energy at that point?

At Point D on the track, what total mechanical energy does the chart represent?

No energy is dissipated from Start to Point B. What is the kinetic energy at Point B?

A smooth spring track loses no energy. What kinetic energy belongs in the blank bar at Release?

Between Point A and Point C, no energy is dissipated. What gravitational potential energy is missing at Point C?

On a frictionless spring toy, what elastic potential energy belongs in the blank bar at Point B?

A skateboarder moves on a smooth ramp. What kinetic energy should fill the blank bar at Midpoint?

The motion from Point 1 to Point 2 is loss-free. What gravitational potential energy is missing at Point 2?

No energy is dissipated as the spring releases. What kinetic energy belongs in the blank bar?

A cart rolls on a smooth track from Start to Point D. What kinetic energy is missing at Point D?

The object rises with no energy dissipated. What gravitational potential energy fills the blank bar at Point E?

A spring oscillator has no dissipative losses. What elastic potential energy should the blank bar show?

From Point A to Point F, mechanical energy is conserved. What kinetic energy is blank at Point F?

A cart moves without friction from State 1 to State 2. What elastic potential energy is missing at State 2?

Which description best matches the object's motion from Point 1 to Point 2?

What happened between the two points shown for the same object?

The spring system changes from State A to State B. Which description fits the bars?

Choose the motion description that matches the change from Point A to Point B.

What does the change in the energy bars show about the motion?

For the spring-cart system, which statement matches State 1 to State 2?

Which description is supported by the two gravitational energy charts?

Compare the energy bars at Point 1 and Point 2. Which motion is consistent with the chart?

The sled moves on a rough slope. How much energy has become internal energy of the sled and slope?

A cart travels along a rough ramp. How much mechanical energy has been dissipated?

A rough spring launcher sends a block forward. How much energy is dissipated as internal energy?

A skier moves from Top to Lower point on rough snow. How much energy has been dissipated?

A cart experiences friction between State A and State B. What internal energy has been produced?

A block slides away from a spring on a rough table. How much energy has been dissipated?

A bicycle rolls down a rough hill. How much energy has become internal energy?

A ball bounces from Before to After on a nonideal surface. How much mechanical energy was dissipated?

In an energy bar chart for a moving object at one instant, what does the height of one bar represent?

If an energy chart shows only kinetic and potential bars, what does their combined height represent?

In a bar chart that includes an internal energy bar, what does that bar usually represent?

Why is the vertical axis of an energy bar chart labeled in joules?