How Does a Cartoon Explain Potential Energy?

2 replies · 2K views · last reply
Mentor
Messages
2,470
Reaction score
3,633
Four-panel Foxtrot comic: a student stands on a chair and says he wants to boost his energy; in the next panels he claims 300 joules of potential energy from gravity, and the teacher replies that his total energy hasn't increased because he expended energy to climb and had Steve lift him; final panel shows him thanking the teacher for the lesson.
 
Attachments
  • Four-panel Foxtrot comic: a student stands on a chair and says he wants to boost his energy; in the next panels he claims 300 joules of potential energy from gravity, and the teacher replies that his total energy hasn't increased because he expended energy to climb and had Steve lift him; final panel shows him thanking the teacher for the lesson.
    upload_2018-10-7_11-28-44.png
    77.9 KB · Views: 1,089
  • Like
Likes   Reactions: gibberingmouther, BillTre, davenn and 8 others