Science Assessment ~ Topics ~ Energy: Forms, Transformation, Transfer, and Conservation ~ Misconception EGM037

The elastic energy of an object does not depend on how difficult it is to stretch or compress the object (AAAS Project 2061, n.d.).

Items that test for misconception EGM037 in this project (Original Project) and key idea (Elastic potential energy is associa…)
Item ID Number	Item Description	How Often the Misconception was Chosen	Select This Item for My Item Bank
EG086001	The elastic energy of an object that is being compressed depends on how much the object is compressed and how difficult it is to compress it.	36%
EG036004	The elastic energy of an object that is being stretched depends on how much the object is stretched and how difficult it is to stretch it.	35%