EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Elastic potential energy is stored in objects that can either be stretched or compressed. The more the object is stretched or compressed, the more elastic potential energy it’ll have. A classic example is a stretched rubber band.

Detailed explanation-2: -An object possesses elastic potential energy if it is at a position on an elastic medium other than the equilibrium position.

Detailed explanation-3: -The coil spring of a wind-up clock. An archer’s stretched bow. A bent diving board, just before a divers jump. The twisted rubber band which powers a toy airplane. A bouncy ball, compressed at the moment it bounces off a brick wall.

Detailed explanation-4: -The coil spring of a wound-up clock. An archer’s stretched bow. A bent diving board, just before a divers jump. A compressed spring.