Infer how potential energy is changed into kinetic energy and back into potential energy.?

Question

flyball is a sport for dogs. After leaping over a four hurdles, a dog jumps on a spring-loaded box taht shoots out a tennis ball. The ball flies through the air, adnt eh dog must catch it..

Answer 1

when the ball is in the box it has potential energy, then when it flies out it has kinetic energy. Once the dog catches it and it is still again it regains potential energy

Answer 2

Why be so mean to the poor puppy?

The dog leaping over the hurdles is kinetic energy

the dog jumping on the box is kinetic

the spring in the box has potential energy

when the dog lands on the box , activating the spring , the potential energy is converted to kinetic energy

resulting in expelling the ball through the air,

If I were the dog I would pee on someone after I caught that ball- it gonna hurt- KINETIC ENERGY!

Answer 3

Since kinetic energy is the energy of an object in motion and potential energy is the energy of the object when still, you can infer that...

The dog running and jumping over the hurdles has kinetic energy - it is in motion. The spring loaded box has potential energy - unmoving. As the dog jumps onto the box, the spring is compressed which is converted to kinetic and then the once stationary tennis ball (so having potential energy) is then shot into the air - converting its energy to kinetic, and then the dog must jump from his still state on the box (potential) into the air (now kinetic pup) and catch that ball and lands on the ground converting his energy once more from kinetic to potential. Oh then he wins and he begins to wag his tail which then goes from potential to kinetic. Yay pup!