Tag
Potential Energy
Entries tagged potential energy.
2 entries
Concept
Conservation of mechanical energy
When only conservative forces act, the sum of kinetic and potential energy stays fixed, letting you compare two moments of motion without tracing the path between them.
6 min
ConceptPotential energy and configuration
Potential energy is the work a configuration of interacting objects could still do, stored not in one object but in the relationship between them and a reference.
6 min