Lecture 12: Potential Energy Diagrams
Objectives: In this lecture, students will learn to- apply energy conservation to more complex example problems
- relate potential energy to force
- analyze potential energy diagrams
- infer information about speed from potential energy diagrams
- identify positions of equilibrium
- use the concept of potential diagrams to model the interaction of atoms in a diatomic molecule
- Powerpoint: lec12.pptx
- Pdf (recommended for printing): lec12.pdf
| Example problem with "other" forces | Video 1 | with captions |
| Relationship between potential energy and force | Video 2 | with captions |
| Potential energy diagrams | Video 3 | with captions |
| Diatomic molecule | Video 4 | with captions |
Homework assignment: HW #12