A toy cannon tosses a rubber ball straight upward. A motion sensor measures the speed of the ball as it leaves the cannon. Using
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With this information is not possible to calculate the mass.
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This is a characteristic problem of energy conservation, where kinetic energy becomes potential energy. For this particular problem, we have the initial speed as input data. The moment the ball comes out of the cannon we have the maximum kinetic energy, as the ball goes up the ball will gain more potential energy as the ball loses kinetic energy, until the moment the ball reaches the maximum height. At the maximum height point, the ball will have its maximum potential energy while its kinetic energy is zero. In other words, all the kinetic energy that was, in the beginning, was transformed into potential energy.
In the above equation the masses are canceled and we can determine the maximum height, by means of the initial speed.
But the mass cannot be determined, since it would be necessary to know the value of the energy, in order to determine the value of the mass.
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Energy is transformed from potential to kinetic and vice versa
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The energy is transformed from mechanical to kinetic energy when the object changes its position with respect to a reference point, where it loses height but increases its speed. When the object is at maximum height with respect to a reference point, it will have its maximum potential energy value. When the object passes through the reference point it will have potential energy equal to zero, but this energy will become kinetic energy.
The most characteristic and real example is that of a pendulum at one end, as can be seen in the attached image.
When the pendulum is located at the top end, as shown in Figure 1, at that point the maximum potential energy will be held. Then the pendulum is released and when it passes through the reference point and its height is zero, with respect to that point, all potential energy will have become kinetic energy in the same way at this point the maximum speed of the pendulum will be set.
