Please answer the following questions, write down your work of calculation.

Using
calculator is allowed. (50 points)

1. Explain what is energy! (2points)

2. What is conservation of energy? (2 points)

3. Convert the following: (10 points)

Joules Kilojoules
500
1.2
0.5
1250
0.02

4. Explain energy transformation happens on these following (3 points)

a. Riding a bicycle

b. Throwing a basketball

c. Cooking with an electric stove

5. Look at the sankey diagram, how much is the

thermal energy (2 points)

6. Roger Federer’s tennis ball has a mass of 0.3 kg. If he holds the ball above the ground at a
height of 2.0 m to serve, what is its gravitational potential energy (GPE)? (5 points)
7. An owl has a mass of 4.00 kg. It dives to catch a mouse, losing 800.00 J of its GPE. What
was the starting height of the owl, in meters? (5 points)

8. A football of mass 0.6 kg was kicked up to a height of h, and it hit the ground with a speed
of 18 m/s. Find height h (5 points)

9. If a basketball of 0.75 kg is dropped from a height of 2.5 m, what is the speed of the
basketball when it hits the ground? (6 points)

10. A ball of mass 3 kg is placed on a spring launcher with a spring constant of 200 N/m.
How far does the spring need to be compressed from its rest position to ensure that the ball
leaves the spring at 20 m/s? (10 points)