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Physics Tutorial 5.4 - Elastic Potential Energy and Combination of Springs

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There are 3 lessons in this physics tutorial covering Elastic Potential Energy and Combination of Springs. The tutorial starts with an introduction to Elastic Potential Energy and Combination of Springs and is then followed with a list of the separate lessons, the tutorial is designed to be read in order but you can skip to a specific lesson or return to recover a specific physics lesson as required to build your physics knowledge of Elastic Potential Energy and Combination of Springs. you can access all the lessons from this tutorial below.

In this Physics tutorial, you will learn:

  • What is elastic potential energy and how it is calculated?
  • What does the area under the elastic force vs deformation graph represent?
  • In which kinds of energy, the elastic potential energy can be converted?
  • What does the Law of Energy Conversion say?
  • How we combine the springs?
  • How to find the total spring constant in a certain spring combination setup?
  • How the spring constant changes when we combine two or more springs?

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5.4Elastic Potential Energy and Combination of Springs
Lesson IDPhysics Lesson TitleLessonVideo
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5.4.1The Meaning of Elastic Potential Energy
5.4.2Conversion of Elastic Potential Energy into Other Forms of Energy
5.4.3Combination of Springs

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