Science Assessment ~ Topics ~ Energy: Forms, Transformation, Transfer, and Conservation ~ Misconception EGM015

Motion energy depends on the effort required to move the object not the speed of the object. For example, an object rolling down a hill at 5 miles per hour will have a different amount of motion energy than an object rolling up a hill at 5 miles per hour or a person has a different amount of motion energy when walking through water than they do when walking through air at the same speed. For some students energy is associated with the difficulty with which an object is moved or how hard a person has to pull or push (Brook & Driver, 1984).

Items that test for misconception EGM015 in this project (ASPECt) and key idea ()
Item ID Number	Item Description	How Often the Misconception was Chosen	Select This Item for My Item Bank
RG176001	Kinetic energy is proportional to mass, so when a moving object has its mass increased by two the kinetic energy of that object increases by two.	26%
RG081002	Kinetic energy is proportional to mass, so when a moving object has its mass increased by two the kinetic energy of that object increases by two.	20%