Hello people! Today I will be having a new blog about this terms science topic.
Energy Transformation.
-When energy is passed down from one thing to another.
There are 8 types of energy.
-Kinetic - Moving
-Chemical Potential - Energy from food and fuel
-Heat - Temperature giving energy - Hot = lots, Cold not a lot.
-Light - Waves of light - Visible (can see) or X-ray
-Gravitational - Effect of gravity pushing down
-Elastic - Stretches to load up energy
-Electrical - Anything using power
-Sound - Waves can hear eg: voice, vibration
[Elastic - kinetic - sound - gravitational - Kinetic]
Today We also did a little experiment.
What we did was a little marshmallow cannon.
We used plastic cups, rubber balloon and a small marshmallow.
We cut the end of the cup first then cut midway on the neck of the balloon. After that we putted the balloon at the end of the cup where we have token off from the base.
After we did we got outside and used the little marshmallow to do the cannon.
Now you might think what those 8 types of energy is for..Hence I will tell you what they are for in this experiment.Well while doing the experiment we have to see which of those energy we saw and explain them. First is Elastic and that came from pulling the balloon at the bottom and that's when Kinetic comes in, moving from one place to another. One you fire the cannon you can hear a "*pop*" sound and that's sound energy, where the sound comes from. Then the marshmallow fly up in the air and that's gravitational energy. And once it's going back down it is also called kinetic energy because it moves down from up high where it came from when we fired the cannon.
We also did a little animation within 2 poeple in each group making the slide show.
Here's the slide that me and faye did. there will be words guiding you on what is happening and some words guiding you where the sound will start.
Hi Kristille, It is awesome to see the explanation of the different energy transformations using the marshmallow cannon. When the marshmallow shoots through the air it is moving... so it has kinetic energy. Only when the marshmallow starts to fall does it have gravitational. It is awesome to see the change back to kinetic energy included at the end!
ReplyDeletePlease add in your animation slides.
Miss A