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wound clock spring is potential or kinetic energy?

would it be potential because its wound up "waiting for energy to be expended"? or is it talking about a wound clock spring thats using energy? im a little confused.. maybe you could help? thanks.

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  • 9 years ago

    It's potential energy - just like a ball at the top of a hill. The an unwinding spring isn't using energy, it's giving it up - you put energy into it to wind it up.

    The energy is given by 1/2(k*x^2) N*m^2 where k is a spring constant and x is the distance from the rest length in meters.

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    Lv 6
    9 years ago

    A wound clock spring posses potential energy because it can supply the work necessary to make a clock operate for many hours.

  • 4 years ago

    Well at first potential energy came up to my mind. But with more analysation am going with kinetic energy because for the body to expand its loses it potential energy to kinetic energy. Thanks.

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    4 years ago

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  • 9 years ago

    It would be potential I believe because when released, it has the *potential* to give energy. It can't be kinetic because something has to be moving for it to be kinetic.

  • 9 years ago

    it would be potential energy

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