We explore energy conservation by plotting kinetic and potential energies. For a ball thrown upward, kinetic energy decreases as gravitational potential energy increases, keeping total energy constant...We explore energy conservation by plotting kinetic and potential energies. For a ball thrown upward, kinetic energy decreases as gravitational potential energy increases, keeping total energy constant. In oscillating spring-mass systems, kinetic and potential energies vary with displacement, but total energy remains constant. Time-averaged kinetic and potential energies are equal in systems with parabolic energy curves, showing oscillations’ universal nature.
