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Activity - How POWER-ful Am I?

The document describes an activity to calculate the power output of students walking or running up a flight of stairs. Students will record their weight, the height of the stairs, and time to climb. They will then calculate the energy expended and power output of each student. Questions ask students to identify the highest and lowest power outputs and factors that determined them. Power is defined as work over time, and the activity explores the relationships between power, work and energy.

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Activity - How POWER-ful Am I?

The document describes an activity to calculate the power output of students walking or running up a flight of stairs. Students will record their weight, the height of the stairs, and time to climb. They will then calculate the energy expended and power output of each student. Questions ask students to identify the highest and lowest power outputs and factors that determined them. Power is defined as work over time, and the activity explores the relationships between power, work and energy.

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Activity ___

How POWER-ful am I?
Objective:
 Define Power.
 Describe how work is related to power and energy.
 Calculate the power output in walking or running up a flight of stairs.

Materials Needed:
meterstick
timer

Procedure:
1. Write the group members’ names in the first column of Table 1.
2. Enter each member’s weight in column 2. To solve for the weight, multiply the mass (in kg) by
acceleration due to gravity (g=9.8 m/s2) =10m/s2.
3. Measure the height of the flight of stairs that you will climb. Record it on the table.

4. Each member will walk or run up the flight of stairs. Use a stopwatch or any watch to get the
time it takes for each member to climb the stairs. Record the time in the 4th column.
5. Solve for the energy expended by each member. Record them in the 5th column of the table.
6. Compute for the power output of each member.

Q1. Who among the group members had the highest power output?

Q2. What is the highest power output?

Q3. Who among the group members had the lowest power output?

Q4. What is the lowest power output?

Q5. What can you say about the work done by each member of the group? Did each member
perform the same amount of work in climbing the stairs?

Q6. What factor/s determined the highest/lowest power output?

Q7.What is Power? How is work related to power and energy?

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