{"id":2403,"date":"2025-10-14T15:02:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T14:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2403"},"modified":"2025-10-14T22:24:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T21:24:23","slug":"potential-kinetic-energy-of-a-falling-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2403","title":{"rendered":"Potential &amp; Kinetic Energy of a falling ball."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-43.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"497\" height=\"299\" src=\"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-43.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-43.png 497w, https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-43-300x180.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a vpython simulation graphing the potential and kinetic energies of a ball released from a height.<br>What do you notice about the potential energy and kinetic energy as the ball falls?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.glowscript.org\/#\/user\/helpmyphysics\/folder\/Lessons\/program\/BallPEKE\">Find the simulation here.<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a vpython simulation graphing the potential and kinetic energies of a ball released from a height.What do you notice about the potential energy and kinetic energy as the ball falls?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-higher-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2405,"href":"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403\/revisions\/2405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}