Mechanical energy swing because of the work done by the pendulum to oppose these non-conservative forces. That the loss of mechanical energy in a system always resulted in an increase of the system's temperature has been known for a long time, but it was the amateur physicist James Prescott Joule who first experimentally demonstrated how a certain amount of work done against friction resulted in a definite quantity of heat which should be conceived as the random motions of the particles that comprise matter. This equivalence between mechanical energy and heat is especially important when considering colliding objects. In an elastic collision,
2015–16 Florida Atlantic Owls men's basketball team 2015–16 Florida Atlantic Owls men's basketball team The 2015–16 Florida Atlantic Owls men's basketball team represented Florida Atlantic University during the 2015–16 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Owls, led by second year head coach Michael Curry, played their home games at the FAU Arena, and were members of Conference USA. They finished the season 8–25, 5–13 in C-USA play to finish in a tie for 12th place. They defeated UTSA in the first round of the C-USA Tournament to advance to the second round where they lost to Old Dominion. The Owls finished the 2014–15 season 9–20, 2–16