Work done (energy transferred by mechanical working)

In physics, there is a standard way to work out how much energy has been transferred. It is to calculate the work done in a...

Teaching Guidance 14-16

Work is done whenever a force moves something over a distance. You can calculate the energy transferred, or work done, by...

Teaching Guidance 14-16

In this episode, students have to learn to think of force as a mechanism by which energy is transferred from one body to...

Lesson 16-19

This episode extends the ideas from energy stored kinetically (and velocity) to braking distance and work. Two experiments are...

Lesson 16-19

Power is the rate at which work is done, i.e. the rate at which energy is transferred by a force. It is likely that your...

Practical Activity 16-19

These questions can be used to explore students' ideas about energy at age 16 and address the new criteria for GCSEs in...

Diagnostic Questions 14-16

The word ‘energy’ originates from the Greek energhéia, a concept Aristotle linked with the idea of hypothetical entities...

Stories from Physics 11-14 14-16