Marble Roller Coaster And Force

The marble roller coaster challenge is a physics experiment from unit 1 7 about motion.

Marble roller coaster and force.

Build your own marble roller coaster in this project and find out. Layers of learning has hands on experiments in every unit of this family friendly curriculum. The foam tubing roller. Identify the two parts.

When you ride a roller coaster all the forces we ve discussed are acting on your body in different ways. The force of gravity is the mass of my marble times the force of gravity on earth. The roller coaster is a great demonstration of the law of conservation of energy. When you raise the marble you are working against the force of gravity giving the marble potential energy.

Then have everyone gently take apart only their own roller coaster and clump all the used tape into a giant tape ball start of class lecture. That is your body will keep going at the same speed in the same direction unless some other force acts on you to change that speed or direction. Potential energy is gathered by an object as it moves upwards or away from the earth. Allow 2 minutes near end of class for students to try each others coasters.

In an isolated system such as the roller coaster the total energy remains constant. Arrange plenty of space in your room cleanup. A roller coaster train gains potential energy as it is pulled up the lift hill to its highest point. A roller coaster moves in the same way a marble would roll down a slanted surface.

The lesson plan difficulty. In english this says. Gravitational potential energy and kinetic energy.