Tuesday, November 15, 2011

When you pull a swing back, what form of energy does it posess?

When you pull a swing back, ready to release it, you are transferring energy to the swing. What form of energy does the swing posess in this state?|||Potential Energy. It came from your muscles.|||If you hold it in one spot, as in don't let it go it has Gravitational Potential Energy, as proven by GPE = weight * height (NOTE: weight = mg)|||the energy is losses in the pull

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