Teaching About Energy: Designing a Roller Coaster

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This student activity is designed to explore the concept of work. Using inclined planes with different slopes, students are lead to discover the invariance of force times distance for objects starting at the same height. Included are notes for instructors wishing to use this material.

This activity is part of a PTRA manual on Energy.

Book Title: Teaching about Energy

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Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Classical Mechanics - Applications of Newton's Laws - Work and Energy General Physics - Properties of Matter	- High School - Middle School	- Instructional Material = Activity = Laboratory

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Access Rights:: Limited free access; The described excerpt is available for free download. There is a cost for the full PTRA manual.
Restriction:: © 2003 AAPT
Keywords:: energy, gravitational energy, kinetic energy, potential energy, potential energy, work
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Record Updated:: August 23, 2008 by Cathy Ezrailson
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This resource is part of a Physics Front Topical Unit.

Topic: Conservation of Energy
Unit Title: Teaching About Energy

This student activity is designed to explore the concept of work and gravitational potential energy through the system of a roller coaster. Includes detailed directions, elicitation questions, example data sheets, and assessments. It is part of the workshop manual on Energy, developed by the PTRA, Physics Teacher Resource Agents, and supported by the American Association of Physics Teachers.

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Roeder, John. "Teaching About Energy: Designing a Roller Coaster." In Teaching about Energy. 2003. http://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=3375&DocID=69 (accessed 22 May 2013).

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Roeder, John. "Teaching About Energy: Designing a Roller Coaster." Teaching about Energy. 2003. 22 May 2013 <http://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=3375&DocID=69>.

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