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Hudson Valley Community College Conservation of Mechanical Energy Purpose Paper

Describe the movement of energy as the cart slid along the track while the hanging mass fell and as the rubber band stretched. To give this a somewhat quantitative/qualitative aspect, we will use plus signs to represent energy amounts.Ten plus signs represents the total energy.We are going to look at 5 different positions along the motion – at the initial point, at the ¼ point, at the ½ point, at the ¾ point, and at the final point.I have filled in the Initial and Final positions for you.These plus signs won’t represent “exact” amounts, but they should represent your best estimate of where the energy is found in the system at these various points.