A flowerpot that has a mass of 1.5 kg is sitting on a windowsill 30 meters from the ground. Is the energy of the flowerpot potential of kinetic?

How much energy does the flowerpot have?

It is Potential and corresponding to

90

J

.

Explanation:

Potential Energy is energy stored in the system and ready (potentially) to be changed into, say, Kinetic Energy through movement.

The general expression for Gravitational Potential Energy is:

U=mgh

where:

mg is the weight; h is the height relative to a certain reference level (the ground in this case) choosen to have zero Potential Energy.

With your data we get:

U=3⋅30=90J

moving ball hits still ball. mover stops, hit ball moves. momentum transfer.

russian is not my first language, so i'm afraid i can't write out an answer in russian, but hopefully you can find a way to do so. here's my best translation of the problem: you're given a plot of a particle's position in one-dimensional space over time, and you're asked to find either the total distance traveled by the particle after 6 seconds had elapsed, or the total displacement of the particle after 6 seconds.

if you want the total distance traveled, you would first need to determine the particle's velocity as a function of time, then integrate that over the 6-second interval. we know the position function is quadratic with roots at 0 and 6, so we have

where is unknown. because the position is parabolic, there is symmetry about the midpoint at , and we know that

so that the position function is

which means the velocity is

then the total distance traveled is

so the total distance traveled is 20 m.

on the other hand, if you want to find displacement: the particle starts at and ends at , so its displacement is 0.