1. How much energy can you store in an elastic band?

2. Title: How much energy can you store in an elastic band
Title: How much energy can you store in an elastic band? Date: 17/09/2018 Keywords: Elastic, Potential, Kinetic, Chemical
Identify how energy is transferred
Describe the process of gaining potential energy
Evaluate how different sized elastic bands can hold more energy
5 mins

3. T E C I A L S * Make as many words as you can from these letters.
You may only use a letter once
Use the star as any letter
If you can use all the letters to make the secret word it is worth ten points!

5. How Does It Work?
When you twist the rubber band chain with the straw, you stretch the rubber band and wind it up.
This winding and stretching creates and stores potential energy. Potential energy is energy that has the ability to do work in the future, but is not currently performing any work.
The more twisting you apply to the rubber band, the more potential energy you create.
When you put the Drag Racing Cups down on a surface the rubber band unwinds and converts the potential energy into kinetic energy, the energy of a moving object.

6. In your books can you create a energy flow diagram of how the energy is transformed.
Chemical Energy (Food)
Elastic Potential Energy
Kinetic Energy (Spinning the Straw)
Kinetic Energy

8. Do you think using thinner or thicker elastic bands makes a difference?
In your books using no more than 50 words put your opinion on paper