SKATEBOARD ENERGY SMART-board SIMULATION LAB
Purpose:
Data: velocity near hill =2m/s, velocity in valley = 5 m/s
Earth / Jupiter / Moongravity
mass
Weight
PE hill
PE valley
KE hill
KE valley
1. What is the formula for Potential energy?
2. What is the first thing you do in the Kinetic Energy formula?
3. What is the unit for Energy?
4. What is thermal energy?
5. Is all the skateboarders energy turned into KE? What happens to it then?
6. What is the Initial Velocity of the skateboarder?
7. Can the skateboarder go higher than the place where he began?
8. What did you notice about the skateboarders speed when we changed planets?
9. Does the direction of motion (up or down) have a large effect on speed?
10. Does height affect speed?
11. How do you find Mechanical Energy?
12. Does the total ME of the system remain the same? Why?
13. Describe the Energy Graph
14. What did you learn for this simulation?
15. If you were the teacher would you use this simulation again, why or why not?
SKATEBOARD ENERGY SMART-board SIMULATION LAB
Purpose:
Data: velocity near hill =2m/s, velocity in valley = 5 m/s
Earth / Jupiter / Moongravity
mass
Weight
PE hill
PE valley
KE hill
KE valley
1. What is the formula for Potential energy?
2. What is the first thing you do in the Kinetic Energy formula?
3. What is the unit for Energy?
4. What is thermal energy?
5. Is all the skateboarders energy turned into KE? What happens to it then?
6. What is the Initial Velocity of the skateboarder?
7. Can the skateboarder go higher than the place where he began?
8. What did you notice about the skateboarders speed when we changed planets?
9. Does the direction of motion (up or down) have a large effect on speed?
10. Does height affect speed?
11. How do you find Mechanical Energy?
12. Does the total ME of the system remain the same? Why?
13. Describe the Energy Graph
14. What did you learn for this simulation?
15. If you were the teacher would you use this simulation again, why or why not?