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Teaching About Energy: Designing a Roller Coaster
written by John Roeder
This student activity is designed to explore the concept of work. Using inclined planes with different slopes, students are lead to discover the invariance of force times distance for objects starting at the same height. Included are notes for instructors wishing to use this material.

This activity is part of a PTRA manual on Energy.
Book Title: Teaching about Energy
Subjects Levels Resource Types
Classical Mechanics
- Applications of Newton's Laws
- Work and Energy
General Physics
- Properties of Matter
- High School
- Middle School
- Instructional Material
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= Laboratory
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© 2003 AAPT
Keywords:
energy, gravitational energy, kinetic energy, potential energy, potential energy, work
Record Creator:
Metadata instance created January 17, 2006 by Bruce Mason
Record Updated:
March 29, 2014 by Caroline Hall
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