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No and here's your smoke too sure brought to you

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by diving boards They provide us with a great opportunity

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to look really cool Four really un cool A person

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standing still at the top of a very tall diving

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board has a lot of which and here the potential

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answers i'm gonna go I don't see in there we

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might not think there's any energy involved when we're standing

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still on a diving board and oh how wrong we

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would be if it takes a lot of energy to

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hold back are hysterical tears when we see how high

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up we are It also takes a lot of energy

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just climbing the darn ladder Seriously anyone else ready for

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a nap Just us So where does that energy go

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Well it'll take the same amount of energy to come

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down as it will to come up And that type

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of energy is called potential energy because nothing is happening

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yet but well it could essentially it's in storage So

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the correct answer is b and because we don't feel

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like jumping just yet Let's make sure the rest of

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the answers are incorrect Just teo you know past time

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Not that we're scared or anything Once the dive star's

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gravity we'll do what it does best The energy use

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while we're in motion is called kinetic energy but if

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there's no motion there's no kinetic energy so is incorrect

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Dissipated energy is energy That's lost well usually is heat

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When we fall through the air we create friction This

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means that some of the kinetic energy becomes heat which

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dissipates into the air as we fall but that can

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only happen when in motion So it's not the right

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choice here And while we might be a little scared

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on top of the diving board nervous energy isn't really

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a thing in the physical sciences will leave that to

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psychiatry is definitely not right So yeah our answer is

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definitely be We wish we could do graceful dives like

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these when we try though all the energy is usually 00:01:42.864 --> [endTime] converted into belly flops

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