Question

When you go up a slide and you have a gravitational potential energy of 500J, what will be the value of the kinetic energy that you reach at the point just before you touch the pool water?

Answer 1

500J

Step-by-step explanation:

According to the principle of conservation of energy; energy can not be created nor destroyed, it could only be changed from one form to another.

In the case of sliding down into the pool, my maximum potential energy of 500J is simply converted to a maximum kinetic energy of 500J just before hitting the water surface.

We can simply illustrate this mathematically as

`mgh=(1)/(2)mv^2`