Roller Coaster Marble Lab

Roller coaster pre lab 10 minutes in this section of the lesson i ask student pairs to describe what happens at the beginning of a roller coaster ride predict whether a roller coaster cart ever gets higher than its initial height and use a simulation that models the physics behind roller coaster motion.

Roller coaster marble lab.

Your goal is to design and build the wildest roller coaster ride that will deliver a marble safely to the end. Record this starting height on the data section of the lab. Increase the angle of the straight piece of track. Abstract if you d like to investigate the physics of amusement park rides then this project is for you.

Build your own marble roller coaster in this project and find out. If you tried to have your marble go up a hill or through a loop that was. This content requires the adobe flash player 9 get flash. You ll build a roller coaster track for marbles using foam pipe insulation and masking tape and see how much the marble s potential energy at the beginning of the track is converted to kinetic energy at various points along the track.

Do make the angle extremely steep. If the marble does not make the whole path the components should be adjusted until the rollercoaster works. Gravitational potential energy and kinetic energy. As an end of unit project students will craft a marble roller coaster to demonstrate the conservation of energy.

Rollercoaster lab in this lab students will explore different kinds of energy as well as the difference. Repeat the loop process until the marble just barely keeps in contact with the track as the marble makes it around the loop. You can build one just for fun or do this as a science fair project. Background roller coasters rely on two types of energy to operate.

Build a marble roller coaster from foam pipe insulation in this fun science project. However if your coaster had any sharp turns or corners your marble might have gotten stuck. You must at least demonstrate three successful consecutive runs. Keep this in mind when building your roller coaster.

11 teachers like this lesson. Roller coasters are useful models for studying the conservation of energy.