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Skate Park and Energy Conservation

Title	Skate Park and Energy Conservation
Description	Students may understand that potential and kinetic energy are traded off on a roller coaster or such thing, but sometimes they can't translate that into a graph. This assignment makes use of predictions of graphs, then the skate park simulation to check understanding of how energy is traded from potential to kinetic, and then to heat. Also there is some critical thinking about how this may take place in environments where gravity is different than on Earth.
Subject	Physics
Level	High School
Type	Lab
Duration	30 minutes
Answers Included	No
Language	English
Keywords	Graphing
Simulation(s)	Energy Skate Park

Author(s)	Don Cameron
Contact Email	dcameron@du.edu
School / Organization	University of Denver High School
Date submitted	10/15/06
Date updated	10/15/06