Teaching About Energy: Power of a Student

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This student activity is designed to help students understand the concept of power. The energy required to climb stairs, and the rate at which students can do this, illustrates this concept. The energy requirements for other common activities are given to help students calculate their energy needs. Included are notes for instructors wishing to use this material.

This activity is part of a PTRA manual on Energy.

Book Title: Teaching about Energy

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Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Classical Mechanics - Work and Energy General Physics - Properties of Matter	- High School - Middle School	- Instructional Material = Activity

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Access Rights:: Limited free access; The described excerpt is available for free download. There is a cost for the full PTRA manual.
Restriction:: © 2003 AAPT
Keywords:: energy, energy in food, energy of exercise, power, power
Record Creator:: Metadata instance created January 17, 2006 by Bruce Mason
Record Updated:: October 14, 2011 by Caroline Hall
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