How Long Is There Potential Energy When A Ball Dropss

When a ball drops, why doesn’t it ever come back to the original spot that it was dropped from? That is because the potential energy that it had was being transferred to heat and sound. Energy isn’t being conserved, its being transferred to potential, kinetic, heat, and sound energy. Energy is not completely being destroyed, its just being transferred. We can use Newton's 3 laws to prove this statement. Newton's first law is energy cannot be destroyed nor created, second law which is force = mass * acceleration, and three for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction(will talk more about this my my body paragraph). The potential energy will lower, and kinetic will rise. As it is dropped, the gravitational potential energy of ball is being used up, to accelerate towards the ground. As the velocity increases from zero, the kinetic energy of the descending ball increases. But the total energy of the ball remains the same which means when it reaches the ground whole of its potential energy has been converted to kinetic energy. Potential energy that it had was being transferred to heat and sound. …show more content…
As stated in newton's 1st law, energy cannot be destroyed, meaning energy literally cannot be destroyed, however it can be transferred. Newton's 2nd law states that F=ma, which deals with this situation because it determines the amount of force or acceleration. Lastly, Newton's 3rd law states for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. As we can see in the packet, we can see in the potential and kinetic graph, when the potential energy drops, the kinetic rises because the energy is being transferred to to kinetic energy. Overall, we can use Newton's 2nd laws to determine the kinetic and potential energy because newton's 2nd law states, force=acceleration*mass which is