Hyperactive

I had too much energy after my trumpet recital on Saturday (probably due to soda and sugar) so I decided to go tree climbing. However, my first few attempts resulted in a fall. Well, practice makes perfect and I eventually managed to sit on a tree branch a few feet above the ground. This is a demonstration of the Conservation of Total Mechanical Energy. When I am at the top of the tree, I have no kinetic energy and using the ground as zero potential energy, all my energy is potential. At the instant I hit the ground, I have zero potential energy as my height is zero, but since energy is conserved, all that potential energy is transformed into kinetic energy. When I hit the ground, I have no velocity and the height is zero, so I have no kinetic nor potential energy. So where did all that energy go? Well, as I was traveling through the air, some of the energy was lost to friction due to air resistance. When I hit the ground, my energy was transferred to the ground, which vibrated to absorb the impact. That energy later dissipated into the universe, increasing the entropy. Kudos to Victoria Kim for her photography.