Kinetic Energy

In this hands-on session we'll learn more about electricity by making our own. Any electric motor is also an electric generator, and we can hack them to turn kinetic energy into electricity. Almost all electricity we use comes via kinetic energy (except solar power - see Solar Power Hour-and-a-half). Power plants, regardless of fuel, make heat to make steam to turn turbines to move magnets past conductors and generate electricity. Wind turbines too - except the sun powers the the weather converting heat to moving air.

This session is based on the kinetic section of this class: fddrsn.net/teaching/energy