Elastic Potential Energy Store
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Key Stage 3
Meaning
The elastic potential energy store is an energy store associated with stretched, squashed and twisted elastic objects.
About Elastic Potential Energy
Examples
Rubber bands can store energy when they are stretched. | A spring stores energy in the elastic potential store when they are stretched, squashed and bent. | A stretched bow stores elastic potential energy. The further it is stretched the more energy it stores. |