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Revision as of 21:55, 30 November 2023
The Main Idea
Energy Diagrams are extremely useful for analyzing the interactions between two different objects. These diagrams can also be confusing if not properly understood. This page serves as a resource on how to construct and interpret energy diagrams. Let's get started!
A Mathematical Model
A Computational Model
Vpython is great for modeling this concept. Using vpython, we can model many different systems that have kinetic and potential energy. We can model a spacecraft orbiting the Earth, and we can create graphs to display the kinetic, potential, and kinetic+potential energies of this system. See this code for how to do this!
[Sample Vpython code:https://trinket.io/glowscript/4010e21bc3]
Examples
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creating energy graphs for different situations
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