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Title of the Experience
The principle of conservation of mechanic energy; transfor-mation of potential energy into kinetic energy.
Name of the student
CAP
Country where it took place
Italy
School typology
High Secondary School
Thematic Area
Physics
Experience typology
Laboratory
Type of Experience
Success
Description of the Experience
The experience consisted in calculating kinetic and potential energy to verify that mechanic energy (the sum of kinetic energy and the potential one) kept constant because of the principle of conservation of mechanic energy.
I used the data which I had got after using the air cushion rail to calculate the energies; we did four tests and we calculated the time that the truck took to cover a distance at different heights with the air cushion rail.
At the end of this experience I could demonstrate that mechanic energy kept constant within the bounds of its uncertainty.
I understood how the potential energy turns into kinetic energy; I also understood that the sum of these two energies keeps constant.

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