The RDS-220 <span>hydrogen bomb, soviet </span>
-- Toss a rock straight up. The kinetic energy you give it
with your hand becomes potential energy as it rises.
Eventually, when its kinetic energy is completely changed
to potential energy, it stops rising.
-- When you're riding your bike and going really fast, you come
to the bottom of a hill. You stop pedaling, and coast up the hill.
As your kinetic energy changes to potential energy, you coast
slower and slower. Eventually, your energy is all potential, and
you stop coasting.
-- A little kid on a swing at the park. The swing is going really fast
at the bottom of the arc, and then it starts rising. As it rises, the
kinetic energy changes into potential energy, more and more as it
swings higher and higher. Eventually it reaches a point where its
energy is all potential; then it stops rising, and begins falling again.
Easy !
Take any musical instrument with strings ... a violin, a guitar, etc.
The length of the vibrating part of the strings doesn't change ...
it's the distance from the 'bridge' to the 'nut'.
Pluck any string. Then, slightly twist the tuning peg for that string,
and pluck the string again.
Twisting the peg only changed the string's tension; the length
couldn't change.
-- If you twisted the peg in the direction that made the string slightly
tighter, then your second pluck had a higher pitch than your first one.
-- If you twisted the peg in the direction that made the string slightly
looser, then your second pluck had a lower pitch than the first one.
