Boardworks GCSE Additional Science: Physics Energy and Movement

Boardworks GCSE Additional Science: Physics
Energy and Movement

Energy and Movement
Spring 2007
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Teacher notes
There are many types of potential energy, of which gravitational
potential energy is just one. Others include:
• elastic potential energy – e.g. in a spring and rubber band

• chemical potential energy – e.g. in food, fuels and batteries
• electrical potential energy – e.g. electrons in a wire
• nuclear potential energy – e.g. the nucleus in a uranium atom
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An alternate version of the equation is ‘GPE = weight x height’, as
‘weight = mass x gravitational field strength’.
Gravitational field strength can also be referred to as gravity.
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Teacher notes
This activity could be used to introduce the factors affecting the GPE of
objects, and the ‘GPE = mgh’ equation.
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Photo credit: Steve LeQuier
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Photo credit: Gary Scott
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Teacher notes
This multiple-choice activity provides an opportunity for students to
practise using the ‘GPE = mgh’ equation. Students could answer each
question in their books before revealing the answer on the IWB.
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Teacher notes
Different types of energy can be found at the following places in this
scene:
• Rita in bed snoring (sound + thermal energy);

• the alarm clock (kinetic + sound energy);
• the bedside lamp and the lava lamp (electrical + light + thermal
energy);
• the hair dryer (electrical + thermal + sound energy);
• the radiator (thermal energy);
• the fruit and the candle (chemical energy);
• the
11 cat that has run into the room (kinetic + thermal + sound energy);
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Photo credit: Sarp Sencer
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Photo credit: wootz
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Teacher notes
This multiple-choice activity provides an opportunity for students to
practise using the ‘KE = ½mv2’ equation. Students could answer each
question in their books before revealing the answer on the IWB.
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Teacher notes
This animated graph could be used as a stimulus for either small-group
or whole-class discussion on the relationship between kinetic energy
and velocity, and could lead onto a wider discussion about speed limits
in conjunction with the animated stopping distances graph from the
‘Speed and Acceleration’ presentation.
An activity to test students’ mathematical ability and understanding of

the ‘KE = ½mv2’ equation, would be to ask them to calculate the KE
value for each velocity before activating the graph to compare results.
Students could then be asked how the increase in KE compares with
the increase in velocity.
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Teacher notes
The conversion rate used here is 1mph = 0.44704m/s, which gives
values of:
• 20mph = 8.9408
• 40mph = 17.8816
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Photo credit: © 2007 Jupiterimages Corporation
Teacher notes
See the ‘Momentum’ presentation information about how cars can be
made safer.
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Teacher notes
This illustrated completing sentences activity could be used to review
students’ understanding of energy transfers. To increase class
participation, students could use mini-whiteboards to suggest the
missing words.
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Teacher notes
This simulation of a rollercoaster illustrates the link between GPE and
KE: as one increases, so the other decreases. It should be noted that
the GPE and KE always add up to the same value (251kJ): the
simulation assumes no loss of energy to friction (heat/sound). Students
could simply observe the relationship between GPE and KE by seeing
how the bars change during the simulation, or one value could be
revealed to enable the students to calculate the other value.
Students could be asked to calculate the GPE and KE of the

rollercoaster at various different points in the simulation, using the two
equations they have learned. By hiding the height or velocity and
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Teacher notes
This multiple-choice quiz could be used as a plenary activity to assess
students’ understanding of energy and movement. The questions can
be skipped through without answering by clicking “next”. Students
could be asked to complete the questions in their books and the activity
could be concluded by the completion on the IWB.
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