Energy Skate Park Activity
Interactive Energy Skate Park simulation worksheet where students analyze kinetic, potential, and thermal energy at various track points by predicting, testing, and comparing energy transformations with/without friction or mass changes.
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Student directions Energy Skate Park Activity 2:
Relating Graphs, Position and Speed (no time graphs)
https://phet.colorado.edu/sims/html/energy-skate-parldlatest/energy-skate-park en.html
1. Josie made a frictionless hot wheel track that
looks like the one shown. She placed a red rubber
ball on the left top of track at 1.
Fill in the Prediction column by staring what
percentage of each type of energy is present
at each section Ex: 60% PE „ 40% KE
Either
Use the intro simulation and choose the loop track,
Or choose the playground simulation to build the track above as similar as possible.
Upload a screenshot of your pie charts in the simulation
Column ( Ctrl + shift + 1=1 11 )
Prediction Simulation Explain the difference between your prediction & the
simulation (Put "none" if your predictions were accurate}
1 PE:100%
KE:
100% None
2 PE: 30%
KE: 50%
30%
70%
Thought the potential energy would have more effect on the
skater.
3 PE:40%
KE:700%
40%
60%
None
4 PE:100%
KE:0%
100% None
Student directions Energy Skate Park Activity 2:
Relating Graphs, Position and Speed (no time graphs)
https://phet.colorado.edu/sims/html/energy-skate-parldlatest/energy-skate-park en.html
1. Josie made a frictionless hot wheel track that
looks like the one shown. She placed a red rubber
ball on the left top of track at 1.
Fill in the Prediction column by staring what
percentage of each type of energy is present
at each section Ex: 60% PE „ 40% KE
Either
Use the intro simulation and choose the loop track,
Or choose the playground simulation to build the track above as similar as possible.
Upload a screenshot of your pie charts in the simulation
Column ( Ctrl + shift + 1=1 11 )
Prediction Simulation Explain the difference between your prediction & the
simulation (Put "none" if your predictions were accurate}
1 PE:100%
KE:
100% None
2 PE: 30%
KE: 50%
30%
70%
Thought the potential energy would have more effect on the
skater.
3 PE:40%
KE:700%
40%
60%
None
4 PE:100%
KE:0%
100% None
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