Question

PLeeease help im so tired and i need to SLEEP. Answer the 1s you know

1. How does the mechanical energy of a ball that is starting to fall compare to its total energy just before it hits the floor?
2. When you stand in sunlight, what form of energy is emitted by the sun?
3. An eye doctor wants to design reading glasses that also function as sunglasses. Should the eye doctor use a reflective-transparent material or a reflective-opaque material for the lenses? Support your claim.

Answer 1

1. when the ball is just starting to fall, it has high potential but low kinetic energy. when it hits the floor, it has high kinetic but low potential energy
2. heat energy
3. reflective-transparent would be best, as they can reflect some light while let other light through, reflective-opaque would be useless in any circumstances because no light at all would be able to get through