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Helpful Sheet for On-Line Rollercoaster Project 2

 

INDIVIDUAL SECTION à You decide on the best title for this page

You will have a table that will look similar to the page below (3 boxes on the left and 11 boxes on the right).

You must click edit before you change anything and don’t forget to press save after you have changed something.

 

 

Here place the best big picture of the whole rollercoaster

 

Examples for titles of the Big Picture picture: The Magician, The Whole Magician, Bird’s Eye View of the Magician, Side View of the Magician, or Glorious View of the Whole Magician.

 

 

In this box you want to describe where your specific section of the rollercoaster is compared to other sections of the rollercoaster.  Also describe what the marble does in this section of the rollercoaster.

 

Example of what you could put in the box to the right of the big picture:

 

The Twirly-Twirl is the section of the Magician right after the first small hill and right before the sprinklers at the end of the rollercoaster.  The marble drops into the Twirly-Twirl section of the rollercoaster after the small hill.  The marble is trapped by the tube and swirls in two sideways loops as it continues its journey downward toward the sprinklers.

 

 

 

 

Here place the side view picture of your part of the rollercoaster

 

 

Example of titles for the pictures of your section (the second and third pictures that you place on the left side of the page):

The Twirly-Twirl (side view)

The Spin Cycle

The Round and Round

 

 

Answer the following questions in each box.  Be as complete and detailed as possible.  Do not write the question.

  1. Where does the marble have the most potential energy? Why?

Example Answer: The marble has the most potential energy at the very top of the twirly-twirl because this is the highest point on the twirly twirl part of the rollercoaster.  Potential energy is the amount of stored energy an object has.  The higher an object is the more potential energy or stored energy it contains because when it is let go from the highest point it releases the most energy when falling and hits with the most force when hitting the ground.

  1. Where does the marble have the least potential energy? Why?
  1. Where does the marble have the most kinetic energy? Why?
  1. Where does the marble have the least kinetic energy? Why?
  1. Give two examples where is there a transfer of energy? (Think of potential energy, kinetic energy, and thermal energy (heat))

 

 

 

Here place the top view picture of your part of the rollercoaster

 

  1. Where does the marble have the most velocity?  Why does it have the greatest velocity at this point?
  1. Where does the marble have positive acceleration?  Why does this happen and what force(s) causes this to happen?  Explain how and why those forces work on the marble.
  1. Where does the marble have negative acceleration?  Why does this happen and what force(s) causes this to happen?  Explain how and why those forces work on the marble.
  1. Explain how the structure supports the marble.  Explain what forces are acting on the structure even when there is no marble rolling down.

 

Any comments you have about how the rollercoaster is relate to interia, momentum, Newton’s First Law, Newton’s Second Law, and Newton’s Third Law

 


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