We started by looking at some problems involving conservation of energy and conversion of energy between different types.
The problem we went through a few times involved a car stopping using the brakes and how kinetic energy was converted to heat by the mechanism of friction.
We looked at the units of joules and how equations with work, gravitational potential energy, elastic potential energy, kinetic energy, etc all have the same units.
We also used the equation to derive the units of a spring constant.
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