E201: Work, Energy, and Power

Mark Joshua M. Agustin

( School of Civil, Environmental, and Geological Engineering, Mapúa University, Philippines)

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

Part 1.

Figure 1. The group placed the fan cart on the leveled track, placing a metallic strip on the cart for the photogates
to react and record the time the cart travel for a given displacement.
Figure 2. With the weight hanger tied to the cart, the cart was switched to low and observed the direction it moves.

Figure 3. For each four trials, we recorded the time given by the photogates and compute for its Work and Power.
Part 2

Figure 1. With a mass tied to a string, we measured its height, h0.

Figure 2. The final height is acquired when the object is pulled horizontally, given the force from the spring
balance.
 Figure 3. the mass is pulled with different force each trial, and the given angle is recorded. The work and
GPE (Gravitational potential energy) is then calculated.

CONCLUSION

The experiment helps understand the idea of work and energy conservation by measuring the cart’s power and
solving the work achieved along the curved path.

In the part one of the experiment, as our group observed the fan cart, the work and power are directly proportional to
each other, therefore as work increases, power increases with respect to time.

In the second part of the experiment, we have observed that if the angle, height and displacement increases, the
amount of work and gravitational potential energy that the object will increase proportionally.

REFERENCE

Work, Energy, and Power (n.d). Obtained from www.physicsclassroom.com/class/energy.com