Energy Definition

Learning about kinetic and potential energy helps you see how engineers and designers fix real-world problems. Knowing about these energies is important for making things like safer football helmets and car airbags to protect people in crashes.

This knowledge is also used in making exciting amusement park rides and working prosthetic limbs. Engineers use these ideas to make sure rides are fun but safe, and to create artificial limbs that move like real ones, helping people with disabilities.