1 / 6

Introduction to Energy Skate Park Lab

Introduction to Energy Skate Park Lab. Starter : At what points on the path of a swinging child is her speed a maximum? A minimum? How does this relate to the height of the child above the ground?. Practice/ Application. Open the “ Energy Skate Park Basics” at the phet site.

joey
Download Presentation

Introduction to Energy Skate Park Lab

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Introduction to EnergySkate Park Lab Starter : At what points on the path of a swinging child is her speed a maximum? A minimum? How does this relate to the height of the child above the ground?

  2. Practice/ Application Open the “ Energy Skate Park Basics” at the phet site. In the “ Introduction” tab, pick the first track (U shaped.) Check “ bar graph” , “speed”, “grid” and “slow motion”. Place the skater at 4m above the ground on the track and release.

  3. Data Put in Science Notebook Read and record the velocity at the following heights. Each increment on the speed dial is 1.0m/s

  4. Questions - Put in Science Notebook Describe how the kinetic energy and the potential energy are related by observing the bar graph. a. What can you tell about the sum of KE and PE? b. When the KE is a maximum, what is the PE? c. How is the KE related to the velocity? d. How is the PE related to the height? 2. At what height are the potential energy and the kinetic energy equal? How are h and v related? Are they directly proportional? Plot v2 vs. h and do a best fit for the graph. What does this tell you about the relationship between h and v?

  5. Exit In your science notebook, answer the following: 1. What are the factors that determine potential energy? 2. What are the factors that determine kinetic energy?

  6. Science Notebook Checklist • Starter • Data table • 3 Answered Questions • Graph ( v2 vs. h ) • Summary • Exit

More Related