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Massachusetts Grade 9/10 Physics MCAS Review

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Conservation of Energy and Momentum

Optiona
2.2 Interpret and provide examples of how energy can be converted from gravitational potential energy to kinetic energy and vice versa.

Potential energy is the ability to do work, based on an object's position in a energy field.

Kinetic energy is energy of motion.

 
Revised January 2007 by Jonathan Dietz, dietzj@mail.weston.org