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| - | - This kinesthetic activity is designed to help upper-division undergraduate students use an air hockey table to visualize the potential energy between two interacting bodies. | + | - This kinesthetic activity is designed to help upper-division undergraduate students visualize graphs of the potential energy between two interacting bodies. |
| - | - Students observe the motion of a puck tethered to the center of an air table and then write down the potential energy of the puck. | + | - Students observe the motion of a puck tethered to the center of an air table and then generate a graph of the potential energy of the puck. |
| - | - The whole class wrap-up discussion addresses models involving central forces and how to write the potential of such a given system. | + | - The whole class wrap-up discussion addresses the different graphs students generated and the canonical graphs used by professional physicists. |
