Taro stated that when someone hits a golf ball with a club, the amount of energy the ball has changes, the amount of energy that the club has changes, and the total energy of the system that includes the ball and the club increases. which best explains taro’s error? the amount of energy that the ball has does not change. the amount of energy that the club has does not change. the total energy of the system remains the same. the total energy of the system decreases.

The total energy in the system stays the same. The Law of Conservation of Energy states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only converted. In this example, both the club and the ball are storing potential energy, that is converted into kinetic energy, but the total energy does not change.

a pan containing water is placed in a positio n where it is exposed to a 10 mile per hour wind. the pan contains a uniform depth of 1.27 cm of water, is quite wide, and has a length of 2.44 m in the wind direction. the water in the pan is at a constant temperature of 15.5 °c.